Goodale wants answers from U.S. on ‘risky’ movement of would-be refugees
OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says he will use a meeting Friday with his U.S. counterpart to try to find out who is organizing the risky movement of would-be refugees into Canada in the dead of winter.
The recent influx of asylum-seekers from the United States at remote border points — often in desperately cold weather — will be among the thorny issues on the agenda when new U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly visits Ottawa.
The reeve of Emerson, on the Manitoba-U.S. border, says 19 people crossed into Canada in a blizzard overnight Tuesday.
“If you’ve ever been in a Prairie blizzard, you know that is very, very risky,” Goodale said Wednesday. “Who organized this, this movement, and did they actually contemplate letting people out on a roadside in the middle of a Prairie blizzard?