Canadian Politics Today

That we turn down one third of in-country asylum seekers is hardly reassuring. In most countries it's more like 90%. The fact is tact is that by the time someone gets this far they're country shopping, not fleeing persecution. That's what the safe third country measures recognize. All those Africans and Mexicans, soon to be joined by Romanians coming into Canada are doing so because they are economic migrants who don't qualify or who don't want to spend the time immigrating by the normal route.