There were chocolate bars and hockey jokes, but beyond the goodwill demonstrated Friday between the leaders of Canada and the United States, there were also some concrete developments.
Of all the developments announced Friday, this is the most immediate: an end, as of midnight Saturday, to the ability of asylum-seekers to request refugee status at unofficial border crossings between the two countries.already required refugee claimants to request asylum in the first country they arrive in, and prevented them from crossing the border to the other country to seek asylum there instead.
The announcement of changes to the STCA came with a promise by Canada to accept 15,000 displaced people from the Western Hemisphere, a region in the throes of a migration crisis. Exactly how they’ll fit into Canada’s overall immigration plans was not immediately clear.Among the various partnerships stressed by Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the work their countries are doing to support Ukraine in its war with Russia. Both pledged ongoing and firm support for that mission.
There has also been persistent tension between the two countries over how much Canada spends on its own defence capabilities, including those that relate to the skies over the Arctic. How vulnerable that area was became clear earlier this year when Norad forces shot down a Chinese spy balloon over the Yukon.
“We’re gonna amplify our shared commitment — climate action — while growing our economies,” Biden said during his address to Parliament.
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