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House Hansard - 141

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 5, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 141 - Dec/5/22
Mr. Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe (Lac-Saint-Jean, BQ)
  • Dec/5/22 2:39:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, in 2017, when the Prime Minister took to Twitter to invite all those fleeing persecution to come to Canada, he surely did not imagine that everyone would come through Roxham Road, but that is exactly what happened. In October alone, 3,901 asylum seekers took that route, out of a total of over 30,000 this year. Meanwhile, do we know how many asylum seekers have used regular border crossings in Quebec? A total of 638 people out of 30,000. Will the minister suspend the safe third country agreement so that asylum seekers can go back to using the border crossings?
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Context: House Hansard - 141 - Dec/5/22
Mr. Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe (Lac-Saint-Jean, BQ)
  • Dec/5/22 2:40:11 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the RCMP were also caught off guard by the Prime Minister's tweet. The RCMP was not expecting 90% of its border agents to be tied up handling Roxham Road. There are 117 land crossings with border services officers where asylum seekers could go instead of Roxham Road, if the minister were to suspend the safe third country agreement. That would allow the RCMP to do their job, their real job. When will the minister suspend that agreement so the RCMP can focus on gun smuggling instead of Roxham Road?
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