Climate change will lead to asylum seekers influx

Published September 1, 2010

In response to the arrival of a ship on Canada's West Coast loaded with Tamils seeking refugee status, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has vowed to crack down on future boatloads of migrants. "We will take whatever steps are necessary going forward," he has said.

But suppose, sometime in the next decade or so, 50 or so such ships suddenly show up on the West Coast, and dozens more on the East Coast of Canada,...