This is where the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States comes from. Canada can designate countries that respect the rule against sending people back into danger, keep a list of them, and set the terms for turning away claims from people who arrived through one. Cabinet has to keep checking that a designated country still earns the label, looking at its treaty commitments, its practices and its human rights record.
(1)The regulations may govern matters relating to the application of sections 100 and 101, may, for the purposes of this Act, define the terms used in those sections and, for the purpose of sharing responsibility with governments of foreign states for the consideration of refugee claims, may include provisions (a)designating countries that comply with Article 33 of the Refugee Convention and Article 3 of the Convention Against Torture; (b)making a list of those countries and amending it as necessary; and (c)respecting the circumstances and criteria for the application of paragraph 101(1)(e).