CANADA'S IMMIGRATION SYSTEM HAS COLLAPSED

   NP:  “Without changes to improve efficiency and productivity of the asylum process, wait times and backlogs will only continue to grow,” Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen writes in the Aug. 14 letter, addressed to the Canadian Bar Association. “This situation is not sustainable, nor is it fair to the people who need Canada’s protection.”
  Sergio Karas, an immigration lawyer and analyst, called Hussen’s letter “an admission of failure … by the Liberal government,” and said the existing system wasn’t designed to accommodate the current volume of asylum claims.

  I honestly do not understand how it is that the federal government can look the people of Canada in the eye and say that the system works,” he said. “Because the system has collapsed.”