GDipICL Academic Director Sharry Aiken, Inez Jabalpurwala (moderator), President & CEO of the Public Policy Forum; IRCC Deputy Minister Ted Gallivan; and John Thon Majok, senior policy analyst with US based Migration Policy Institute

 

At a Montreal conference on June 5, leading policy experts confronted a growing paradox at the heart of North American immigration politics: both the United States and Canada are proclaiming commitments to refugee protection even as they harden their borders and expand executive powers.

The final panel of “Not Politics as Usual: Challenges to Constitutional Governance in Canada and the United States” brought together a cross-section of voices — Inez Jabalpurwala of the Public Policy Forum moderated a discussion featuring Queen’s law professor Sharry Aiken, Ted Gallivan of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, and John Thon Majok of the Migration Policy Institute. Their task was to square two competing realities: rhetoric about protecting vulnerable people and policies that treat migration through a security-first lens.

This panel was recorded at the Société du Vieux‑Port de Montréal as part of the Slater Family Canada‑US Policy Series at McGill’s Max Bell School of Public Policy. Read more about the conference here: https://www.mcgill.ca/maxbellschool/events/not-politics-slater 

You can watch the full panel here: