Conservatives to propose barring non-citizens convicted of crimes from making refugee claims
2026/02/11 2 Comments
Not sure whether this would withstand a Charter challenge but clever move by the Conservatives to choose this issue which most Canadians, immigrants and non-immigrants, would likely support:
The Conservatives are planning to introduce a motion today to bar non-citizens convicted of serious crimes from making refugee claims.
The motion also calls on the government to prevent asylum claims from people whose cases are still working their way through the courts.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said on social media Monday non-citizens who commit serious crimes “must be forced to leave our country.”
The Conservative motion cites an increase in extortion cases and what they call lax bail laws as reasons for the motion.
British Columbia Premier David Eby and several big city mayors have also pushed Ottawa to close what they call loopholes around asylum claims following a significant rise in extortion violence in his province and many others.
Delegates at the recent Conservative party convention in Calgary called for similar changes to the immigration and justice systems when they voted in favour of a policy proposal saying Canadian taxpayers should not pay for the “rehabilitation of foreign nationals.”
Source: Conservatives to propose barring non-citizens convicted of crimes from making refugee claims
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Multicultural Meanderings 
The problem is, many of the countries from which refugee claims are most common, also charge their citizens with disobeying the regime, and convict them with show trials. I wouldn’t want murderers and rapists coming as refugees, but this seems like one-size-fits-all, which never works.
Yep