It's a totally false analogy. Saskatchewan is not in another country, as you noted. That's a huge, huge difference.
There's nothing at all objectionable about a sovereign nation wanting to protect its borders and control who comes in. There are stupid extremes one could take that to that are terrible policy, like Trump's "ban all Muslims", or whatever, but it's a policy decision to have stricter, or less strict, controls on your borders that a country can legitimately make. It's not somehow a violation of a "basic European freedom" to make that policy choice and say, "here are our rules for entrance into the UK; if you don't follow them you can't come in".
Merkel is absolutely awful for moralizing.
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