Refugee and human-rights advocates are telling the Supreme Court of Canada that a binational pact “contracts out” Canada’s international obligations to refugee claimants to the United States.
Opponents of the Safe Third Country Agreement argue it “contracts out” Canada’s international obligations to refugee claimants to the United States, without proper followup to ensure Washington is doing the job.We deliver the local news you need in these turbulent times on weekdays at 3 p.m.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails.
“We are not dealing with people who are fleeing from their home countries,” federal lawyer Marianne Zoric told the Supreme Court hearing. “They are people that are coming to Canada from a safe third country.” In each case, the applicants, who are citizens of El Salvador, Ethiopia and Syria, arrived at an official Canadian entry point from the U.S. and sought refugee protection.
“The evidence clearly demonstrates that those returned to the U.S. by Canadian officials are detained as a penalty.” In their written submission to the Supreme Court, the claimants and advocates say the Appeal Court “declined to engage with the substantive merits of the case” and adopted a “highly restrictive approach to Charter review.”
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