In recent days, the Canadian government has shown the first signs of how it will respond to Donald Trump’s efforts to turn migration into a border security and enforcement issue.
Speaking to the media after a recent dinner at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Public Safety Minister Dominic Leblanc indicated the need “for the Americans and for Canadians to see that the border is secure.”
In tying the border to security, Leblanc made no attempt to correct the mistaken and flawed assumptions about global migration underpinning Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, nor did he defend the legal right of people in danger to seek asylum.
