Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to close the unofficial border crossing at Roxham Road in Quebec within the next 30 days.
“If Canada is a country, then it has borders, and if the prime minister is the head of the government, he is responsible for protecting those borders,” Poilievre said while speaking to reporters in Ottawa on Feb. 21.
“That is why Conservatives are calling for the prime minister to implement a plan to close the Roxham Road crossing within 30 days from now.”
Poilievre said the issue of thousands of migrants claiming asylum in Canada after crossing into the country through Roxham Road was caused by Trudeau, whom he said “encouraged people to cross illegally into Canada.”…