Globe editorial: How Ottawa ignored its own warning and made Canada’s refugee crisis even worse

Good policy advice, not listened to.

And it appears from a variety of public opinion research that this ill-advised policy change is likely one of the changes contributing to declining public support for immigration:

There is a thicket of bureaucratic language in the eight-page briefing document from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on the upside and downside of waiving temporary visitor visa requirements to get rid of a massive backlog of applications.

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Source: How Ottawa ignored its own warning and made Canada’s refugee crisis even worse