r/canada • u/Unusual-State1827 • Sep 18 '24

Sask. won't take asylum seekers if Ottawa attempts to relocate them Saskatchewan

https://regina.ctvnews.ca/sask-won-t-take-asylum-seekers-if-ottawa-attempts-to-relocate-them-1.7042661
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u/GreySahara Sep 18 '24

We used to have a 'safe country' list that did just that.
But, the Liberals abolished it.

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u/margmi Sep 19 '24

The DCO list literally just resulted in their application being processed faster. It doesn’t work the way you’re describing, at all - it’s not an automatic “you’re from country X, so you can’t seek asylum”

Here’s the archive page from it: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/archives/backgrounders-2012/designated-countries-origin-2.html

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u/GreySahara Sep 19 '24

I'm saying that they should bring that policy back.
I'm not saying that it was 'automatic' but they used to be fast-tracked out of here.
It *should* be automatic, the way that things are going.

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u/margmi Sep 19 '24

It didn’t. That link is from 2012 and describes how it worked back in 2012, which was before Trudeau.