The difference between an academic and a practitioner. One gets predictions right more than the other; my thoughts in late summer of last year: That U of C analysis is badly underestimating the likely number of asylum-seekers Canada will handle this year because it doesn’t take into account this summer’s influx of Haitian nationals fearful of being sent back to their homeland by the Trump administration, said immigration lawyer Raj Sharma. “We’ll blow past that 36,000,” said Sharma, whose firm handles numerous asylum cases. Sharma was a refugee protection officer with the federal government in 2001 when the recent peak numbers were reached, partly due to Muslims fleeing a feared immigration crackdown following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, he said." http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/new-data-casts-doubt-on-asylum-seeker-crisis-but-immigration-lawyer-disagrees Read more →