cover of episode Ottawa’s totally spontaneous changes to border security and the refugee system. Plus: Nobody wants Justin Trudeau’s cheques.

Ottawa’s totally spontaneous changes to border security and the refugee system. Plus: Nobody wants Justin Trudeau’s cheques.

2024/11/28
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Elias Makos is joined by Meeker Guerrier, Commentator at Noovo and Anne Lagace-Dowson, political analyst.

  • Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Deputy Minister Chrystia Freeland pledged to increase funding for border security and the Canada Border Services Agency 
  • Canada's Immigration Minister Marc Miller plans to propose reforms to the refugee system, potentially fast-tracking refusals for claims deemed unlikely to succeed
  • The Liberal government has pulled the $250 cheque from its bill for a GST tax holiday
  • The Quebec Liberal Party has proposed a bill to ban supervised drug consumption sites within 150 metres of schools and daycare centres in Montreal and 250 metres elsewhere in Quebec