Canada's decision to issue hundreds of thousands of visitor visas without requiring applicants to demonstrate their purpose of visit could erode public confidence in managed migration. The change, kept under wraps for months, has led to a surge in asylum applications and a growing backlog.
There is a thicket of bureaucratic language in the eight-page briefing document from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on the upside and downside of waiving temporary visitor visa requirements to get rid of a massive backlog of applications.
For decades, Canada has been relatively generous in assessing asylum claims once a refugee reaches this country. But the requirements for visitor visas have been strict, making it difficult to get here in the first place, at least for those arriving by air.on the decision, including that the federal government was perfectly aware that the blanket waiver it issued would lead to a surge in asylum claims.
The government’s statistics aren’t up to date on its backlog for asylum claims but, as of the end of June, it stood at 103,248, up nearly 50 per cent in six months.
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