Immigration and Refugee Board news, opinion and analysis

Why rich Mexicans are fleeing to Canada as refugees

Gangs target financially successful families in the country’s ongoing drug war

Kenney’s case against criminal non-citizens

Ottawa’s plan to make it easier to kick criminals out of the country sounds simple, but some fear it goes too far

Paul Wells explains why Canada’s policy on Roma refugees hits a flat note

A ‘Gypsy’ jazz man on why so many of his people flee to Canada

Two or more

Of appointments to the Immigration and Refugee Board, Jason Kenney told the House on Tuesday that, in fact, he was aware, he thought, of two appointees, out of a total of 140, who had “any association with the Conservative party.”

That’s what the Senate is for

Responding yesterday during QP to complaints about the Immigration and Refugee Board, Jason Kenney sought the high road.

Access-to-Information: credit where it is due

Last month I wrote about the results of an access-to-information request to the Immigration and Refugee Board, which yielded some 4,000 pages on Cindor Reeves. Nothing in those documents changes my conclusion that the board, as well as the federal government, which intervened in the case through the minister of public safety, has shown gross incompetence and perhaps worse in handling this case.