To my knowledge, because those two aspects are not under its jurisdiction, the present Quebec government has never stated an opinion on the safe third country agreement or how the arrival of refugee claimants at the border should be dealt with. Certainly Quebec has something to say when it comes to taking in and looking after refugee claimants.
However, like some of my colleagues around the table, I am convinced that if we suspended the safe third country agreement, immigrants arriving and being taken in would be handled in a much more orderly and controlled way. It would be spread across Canada as a whole, and that would relieve a lot of the current pressure on Quebec, particularly when it comes to newcomer assistance and legal services. We are completely in favour of suspending that agreement, like the settlement organizations.
I suspect that Quebec and the federal government prefer to have people enter via all Canadian border crossings.