Editing Perverse incentive (section)

=== Humanitarian and welfare policies ===

* In the 2000s, Canada negotiated a "[[Canada–United States Safe Third Country Agreement|Safe Third Country Agreement]]" with the U.S. under which applicants for [[Right of asylum|political asylum]] could only apply in the first of the two countries they reached, in order to discourage [[asylum shopping]]. Among the provisions was one that barred anyone entering Canada at an official [[port of entry]] from requesting asylum there, in theory limiting asylum applications to either those filed by refugees in camps abroad or those who could legally travel to Canada and do so at an immigration office. In the late 2010s, [[Illegal immigration to Canada|some migrants began entering Canada illegally]], between official border crossings, at places like [[Roxham Road]] between New York and Quebec, since once they were in Canada, they were allowed to file applications with the full range of appeals available to them, a process that could take years. Canada wound up processing thousands more applications for asylum than it had planned to.<ref name="Keller Atlantic article2">{{cite news |last=Keller |first=Tony |date=12 July 2018 |title=Canada Has Its Own Ways of Keeping Out Unwanted Immigrants |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/07/canada-immigration-success/564944/ |access-date=30 June 2021 |newspaper=[[The Atlantic]]}}</ref>
* A [[welfare trap]] is a situation where a person would make less money working (or [[intensive margin|working more hours]]) than they do receiving [[state benefit]]s, as a result of [[means testing]] rendering them ineligible for benefits.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1997-01-06 |title=Gassing up the welfare trap machine  |url=https://www.aims.ca/op-ed/gassing-up-the-welfare-trap-machine/ |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=Atlantic Institute for Market Studies |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Baetjer |first=Howard |date=24 August 2016 |title=The Welfare Cliff and Why Many Low-Income Workers Will Never Overcome Poverty |url=https://www.learnliberty.org/blog/the-welfare-cliff-and-why-many-low-income-workers-will-never-overcome-poverty/ |website=Learn Liberty}}</ref>