Is the US a 'safe country' for asylum-seekers?: A conversation with Professor Sean Rehaag on new challenges to the US-Canada "Safe Third Country Agreement"
Under an agreement signed in 2002, Canada can return asylum-seekers to the US if they have traveled through the US or lived there prior to arriving in Canada. Recent policies north and south of the US-Canadian border pose new challenges to the agreement, as Sean Rehaag, Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, explains.