Filling the protection gap: current trends in complementary protection in Canada, Mexico and Australia.

This paper examines the increasing practice of complementary protection by undertaking a comparative and critical analysis of the laws and procedures of three countries: Canada, Mexico and Australia. The paper assesses these national complementary protection schemes against international legal benchmarks. The three country case studies have been chosen as these countries represent three different stages of a state’s legislative engagement with complementary protection. Therefore, each case study facilitates an understanding of the various challenges and opportunities at different temporal stages along the complementary protection continuum.