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Canada's 2-Tiered Refugee System

A recent CBC investigation provides valuable information on how refugees from some countries are treated differently than others, but adopts anti-refugee framing about widespread fraud.

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Jeremy Appel
Jan 14, 2025
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A protestor brandishes a Refugees Are Welcome Here sign at a 2017 protest against U.S. president Donald Trump in Vancouver. (Flickr/Can Pac Swire)

In December 2012, Conservative citizenship and immigration minister Jason Kenney, who spent the previous several years ranting and raving about “bogus refugees” and “false [asylum] claimants” who were cheating…

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