Osgoode Hall seminar series; New Canada-US border strategy "Lacolle Project" will shut out bona fide refugees York U. law professor warns.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-15 August 2000-YORK UNIVERSITY: Osgoode Hall seminar series; New Canada-US border strategy "Lacolle Project" will shut out bona fide refugees York U. law professor warns (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14082000 TORONTO -- A new collaboration between Canada and the United States to stem the tide of illegal migrants to the continent threatens to shut out bona fide refugees fleeing persecution, says Sharryn Aiken, law professor and a member of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University.

"It is blatant hypocrisy for Canada to suggest that it is upholding the terms of the Geneva Convention related to the status of refugees while it is engaged in this kind of crackdown," says Aiken, adding that most political refugees have...