How the U.S. election could impact the border with Canada [Video]

As we move closer to the U.S. election, CTVNews.ca will be examining the relationship between Canada and the U.S. in a series of features.

While America’s southern border remains a hot button issue on the campaign trail, the result of the U.S. election in November could also impact the northern frontier with Canada, which remains the longest undefended border in the world. In their quests for the White House, Republican candidate Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions of undocumented migrants while Democrat Kamala Harris has toughened her stance on unlawful border crossings and asylum seekers.

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“If Trump were elected and engaged in mass deportation, many of those people are going to be seeking asylum in Canada, so that’s something that I suspect people in Ottawa are talking about,” Western University political science professor Donald Abelson told CTVNews.ca. “With Harris probably less so, in large part because her policies would …