CBC: Canada needs to do a 'stronger job' of curbing misuse of visitor's visas, Miller says

The federal government needs to do more to prevent misuse of visitors visas by people coming to Canada, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said.

"We've taken a number of measures throughout the summer, particularly to deal with the flow of people coming into the country," Miller told CBC News last week.

"And it's no surprise to anyone that … we need to do a stronger job in making sure that people that are coming here, for example on visitor's visas, do so for those purposes and not for the purposes of ... claiming asylum or finding their way into the U.S."

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reports it encountered 21,929 migrants between border posts on the American side of the Canada-U.S. border between October 2023 and August 2024 – 17,810 of them in the Swanton Sector, which runs along Quebec's border with New York and Vermont.