Trevor Hughes
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512 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 14 Aug
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And so that really informs how they look at, you know, one of the Mounties I talked to, he told me a story about chasing these people through the woods for like five or seven hours through waist deep snow.
He was trying to catch them, of course, but he was also trying to make sure that they didn't die because they have seen amputations.
They have seen frostbite.
People really get hurt trying to do this.
Well, it's important to remember that border crossings on the Mexican border have dropped to almost zero under President Trump.
He has done, as he said, he has closed the border.
And there are very, very few people coming across now.
That means that more attention has shifted to Canada.
What I was really struck by was the number of people sneaking out of the United States and coming to Canada, people seeking asylum, particularly Haitians.
Haiti is a French speaking country and the province of Quebec, they speak French there as well.
And so many people have families or extended family in the province.
And so they're coming to Quebec, coming to Montreal, sort of seeking that connection, that community in a country that they think will be more welcoming to them, given that President Trump is ending TPS for Haitians.
This is a controversial situation.
Under an agreement struck between Canada and the United States back in 2023, people who seek asylum in Canada from the United States are
are basically automatically returned to the United States on the assumption that Canada and the United States treat asylum seekers equally.
And so if you've already gone to the United States and requested asylum, that's the best place for you to continue seeking asylum.
There is a quirk, however, which is that if you can sneak across the Canadian border and remain uncaptured by authorities for 14 days, then you essentially reset that asylum clock and you can then make an asylum claim in Canada.
So, yeah, people have this idea that Canada is a nicer place that is a better place.
And I would say that that is what I heard from the Mounties that they're hearing from the people they talk to.
They're they're leaving the United States because they believe that they will get a fair shake in Canada, that President Trump has made things so uncomfortable for people that they are leaving the United States.
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