Mr. Speaker, when the federal government was swamped with asylum claims at Roxham Road, its solution was to accept refugees indiscriminately in order to speed up the process. Ottawa drew up a list of countries whose applicants were automatically accepted without any questions asked. Those countries included Russia, Afghanistan, Iran and many others that are currently problematic. As a result, at the height of the Roxham Road crisis, the acceptance rate for asylum claims rose from 65% to 80%.
Why did the government agree to accept refugees without meeting them?