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Former refugee believes she wouldn’t have been able to stay with proposed border bill
Bill C-12 prevents refugee claims after one year in Canada, with only 6% of pre-removal risk assessments allowing stay, raising concerns over changing refugee circumstances.
- Bill C-12 would bar the Immigration and Refugee Board from hearing claims after a year, and Asya Medea said she does not believe she would have been able to stay in Canada under those rules.
- An immigration official told the House of Commons immigration committee that June 24, 2020 marks when Canada's entry and exit system began, making the bill's one-year limit retroactive to that date.
- Asya Medea said she came to Canada on a student visa and filed a refugee claim about 18 months after arriving, explaining that `Turkey had become increasingly transphobic and the regulations in Turkey had begun specifically and personally targeting people, including me.`
- Diab noted PRRAs remain available, but evidence from a 2022 hearing suggests only about six per cent of those assessments result in permission to stay, raising concerns from Bloc Québécois MP Claude DeBellefeuille.
- Advocates and MPs warned the one-year limit is unrealistic given rapidly changing crises, with Hussan saying the 365-day cutoff fails to reflect war and emergencies, leaving refugee communities shocked and confused.
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Former refugee believes she wouldn't have been able to stay with proposed border bill
OTTAWA — A trans woman does not believe she would have been able to stay in Canada if the refugee rules outlined in the government’s new border bill were in effect. Asya Medea came to Canada in 2018 on a student visa to begin a PhD in gender, sexuality and women’s studies at Toronto’s York […]
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