The federal-provincial task force charged with managing an unprecedented flow of asylum seekers over the Canada-U.S. border will meet on Aug. 23, 2017 in Montreal.
Quebec's opposition parties are encouraging far-right groups in the province, Premier Philippe Couillard said Tuesday in response to reports of anti-immigration banners being displayed in Quebec City.
Twenty officials from the Immigration and Refugee Board have been assigned to focus exclusively on deciding asylum claims lodged by people crossing illegally into Quebec.
"I have 35 years of of service, I have worked 18 years as an agent on the field at the border and I have never seen anything like that," said Jean-Pierre Fortin, president of the agents' union.
The Immigration and Refugee Board is doing its best to cope with a growing number of asylum claims in Canada, but the federal Liberals must take action to prevent an unmanageable backlog.