Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today responded to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s call for Ottawa to close the Roxham Road unofficial border crossing within 30 days, saying that the action would not reduce the high number of asylum-seekers entering Canada.
“Could somebody put up barricades and a big wall?” Trudeau said while speaking to reporters on Feb. 22 in Richmond Hill, Ontario. “Yes, if Pierre Poilievre wants to build a wall at Roxham Road, someone could do that.”
Trudeau said the problem of high numbers of migrants flooding into Canada isn’t caused by Roxham Road, but by the fact that Canada has thousands of kilometres worth of “undefended, shared border with the United States.”…