The Supreme Court of Canada will hear arguments starting today on cases relating to Canada’s “human smuggling” law. Four out of the five cases involve people connected to ships that arrived on Canada’s Pacific coast carrying Sri Lankan migrants.
The law makes it a crime for anyone to assist someone coming into Canada without valid documentation, including humanitarian workers helping refugees fleeing persecution, says the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, an intervener in the proceeding. Its lawyers will argue the law is unconstitutional.
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