The federal government sought on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017, to introduce more stability into Canada's immigration system by introducing a plan that sets out a gradual rise in admissions over the next three years.
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.
The secret sessions follow a spate of terrorist attacks in England that underscore the international alliance's concerns about the threat of homegrown extremism.
Two Immigration and Refugee Board appeal judges say a reappointment process is a sham to screen out Conservative appointees and institutional memory is being lost in the process.
A Liberal election promise to overhaul the way asylum claims are handled has been postponed indefinitely despite rising numbers of people seeking refuge in Canada putting the system at risk.
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.
Bundled against bone-chilling cold, asylum-seekers hoping to gain refugee status in Canada have been trudging through ditches and fields along the border with the United States.