This makes no sense. Canada and Trudeau have already gotten their headlines for stepping up to the plate with compassion and virtue to take the refugees and others who are being impacted by the Trump travel ban.
No one is going to find out what you're doing with the Emerson 'problem'. Enough already with looking for a technicality to save face. It's not necessary.
This is similar to the theatrics of whether Canada should do the right thing and not sell billions of dollars of arms to the worst human rights violator in the world. No one found out you did that either, you get to keep the money and the  'peace loving honest broker' stuff.
Along the same lines, European countries marvel at the relative ease in which Canada can bring in tens of thousands of Syrians compared to the chaos in their own countries. What they don't know is the secret seems to be to limit the influx to orphans, families and homosexuals. You would be stupid to let that info out. You've already gotten your headlines.