Hopefully Gerald Butts is explaining to Justin Trudeau that this is an expensive problem for which Canadians will not long have patience. Witness comparable situations of country-shopping in Europe, where arrivals in Greece quickly skip up to Germany and Scandinavia.

If we had a leader in Ottawa (rather than a follower), we would soon have an announcement that new, better laws are being proposed to address the situation where a refugee wannabe in the USA flees to Canada.

Sadly we have a follower instead of a leader, and so instead of new policy proposals we are more likely to see a listening tour, lots of selfies and many patented "I care scrunchie faces" cast upon the adoring masses...