Citizenship and Immigration committee  The practice of shooting tear gas across borders and pushing people back from claiming asylum is unfortunately part of a growing trend in border control that some states—Israel and Hungary, for instance—call “hot returns”, which is to push people back over borders regardless of w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Is your question whether or not the government feels pressure or that they should feel pressure?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that if we leave considerations of political affiliation aside and just look at—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They do change from time to time, but the one constant in international relations is the sovereign self-interest of states. If we consider well-regulated and well-managed international mobility in such a way so that you don't see large-scale irregular migration flows on borders

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. It's a fact that when states make unilateral decisions about irregular migration and how they're going to react to irregular migration, it necessarily affects other states and their neighbours, and there are cascading effects. The best and the only real way to deal wi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sure. Thank you. I'm used to just talking as much as I want and forcing students to listen. While Canada helped draft the global compact on refugees, our support for the CRRF seems remarkably less clear. The fact is that if you look at where our programming is right now, we're s

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My name is Craig Damian Smith. I'm the associate director of the Global Migration Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. I just want to thank you and say it's a privilege to be part of this discussion. I want to open by stating that the conversat