Canada's Supreme Court upholds Safe Third Country Agreement with US for asylum-seekers.

Canada's Supreme Court has upheld the Safe Third Country Agreement, which restricts a person's ability to claim refugee status in Canada. The law was found to be unconstitutional in 2020, but the Trudeau government appealed and it made its way to the Supreme Court. The pact sets out that claimants must file in the first "safe" country they arrive in, allowing the country to turn asylum seekers back from Canada-U.S. border checkpoints. Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden negotiated an update to the agreement during their bilateral meeting in March to address that.