If I may begin, we feel that it violates the refugee convention in terms of penalizing refugees because of their mode of arrival. We feel it violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights through mandatory detention, which is arbitrary, and through family separation of up to five years. Equally, it violates the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It ignores the best interests of the child, among other contexts within the detention context. Also, by denying the right to family reunification, it creates a separation between children and adults. Those are the main points of non-compliance.
How would it impact Canada? Well, it will give us a bad name, and also could lead to a certain amount of international litigation before treaty bodies.