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“What is happening in Canada, said Dumas, falls in line with the great migration of refugees and asylum seekers that have been flowing into Europe for the past few years,” a story in the Cornwall Standard Freeholder explained. Then a direct quote from Dumas: “Canada is no longer protected from this reality.”

This is a wild notion, that what we’ve witnessed the past couple of years is not some blip that will soon die down – as the Liberal government would have you believe – but it’s the new normal. That we are now on the receiving end of a constant stream of migration, whether it’s in line with our policies or not.

Wild perhaps. But it’s now backed up by evidence – year-end numbers just released by the federal government.

The illegal crossings come and go from the news, perhaps leading people to believe that the issue itself comes and goes. That when it’s out of the headlines that means the crossings themselves are gone. Not so. For the past two years, they’ve remained constant.

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Back in 2016, the number of people apprehended for crossing “irregularly” into Canada was 2,464 for the entire country. But by the end of 2017, the number for Quebec alone – the Roxham Road hub – had skyrocketed to 18,836 people.

But last year there was the occasional story that told us the numbers were decreasing. Ministers said the situation was under control. Nothing to see here folks. Did that mean the numbers had significantly decreased?