No One Is Illegal -Toronto
22 March, 2012MP Costas Menegakis (Conservative MP, Richmond Hill), MP Chungsen Leung(Conservative MP, Willowdale), MP Matthew Kellway (NDP MP, Beaches - East York),MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan, (NDP MP, Scarborough
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Rouge River), MP Rick Dykstra,(Conservative MP, St. Catharines), MP Roxanne James, (Conservative MP,Scarborough Centre), MP Ted Opitz, (Conservative MP, Etobicoke Centre)
Axe the Refugee Exclusion Act (Bill C-31)
We are hand-delivering this message to some Members of Standing Committee onCitizenship and Immigration (CIMM).In the days to come you will be discussing Bill C-31, first in parliament and then incommittee. Bill C-31 is nothing less than a Refugee Exclusion Act. If passed, it willessentially shut out many asylum seekers from gaining permanent refugee status in thecountry.This is unacceptable.Bill C-31 is an omnibus immigration bill that would jail asylum seekers, entrench a two-tier refugee system that would discriminate against many, and give the CitizenshipMinister
the ability to take away people’s permanent residency after they have been
granted refugee status. Not only that, it advocates intrusive biometrics data collection onall migrants in the country, and gives increased powers of arrest and detention to border