Abstract

This chapter reflects on the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2013 ruling in Ezokola v Canada. ¹ The case is important because it changed the law in Canada, and because it has the potential to lead to change elsewhere as well. But it is also important because of the fulcrum position that it occupies in the ongoing tug of war between refugee advocates and those who assert that migration, and migrants themselves, are often tainted with criminality.