Since terror, war, and persecution are widespread, its just about the same thing.
The actual reason they arrived in Canada doesn't matter. You just have to say you are fleeing persecution. Then you are scheduled for a preliminary hearing, which will be scheduled for 12-24 month out. If you are told to leave, you can follow a very lengthy appeal process, which I understand can take as much as 10 years. In the meantime, you can enjoy Canada's benefits, rather than the economic hellhole of, say, Haiti.
All that said, I don't think Trudeau really meant to invite everyone. But he wanted his base to hear his call for open borders. It was all about optics. How it appears to his Liberal Party voters who generally favour a soft touch on illegal immigrants rather than the previous Harper tough hammer.
Bookmarks