Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today responded to recent calls for Ottawa to close the Roxham Road unofficial border crossing, saying that the action would not reduce the high number of asylum-seekers entering Canada.
“For years we have been focused on closing Roxham Road. The challenge is not to say ‘oh, we should close it’—the challenge is how to close it,” Trudeau said while speaking to reporters on Feb. 22 in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
