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Few Canadians will have heard about something called the UN Global Compact for Migration. But they should expect to hear more about it soon, as more countries drop out of the deal and calls emerge for Canada to do the same.

The pact is one of those things that when you explain it in brief, it sounds like the stuff of conspiracy theories – a global plan by faceless bureaucrats to effectively control our borders. But that’s not too far off the mark once you read through the document Canada is expected to sign on to at an event in Morocco early next month.

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It’s all about working together to, as they put it, “enhance international, regional and cross-regional border management cooperation.” The problem is borders are not international or regional. They’re national. And it’s this point that is driving countries to back out.

“Migration is not and cannot become a human right,” Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache said last week, explain why his country was stepping away from the deal. “It cannot be that someone receives a right to migration because of the climate or poverty.”