Canada lawyer group urges Senate to halt immigration reform citing human rights concerns

Canada lawyer group urges Senate to halt immigration reform citing human rights concerns

The Canadian Bar Association urged the Senate not to pass Bill C-12 in a public letter issued on Tuesday. The group said the bill will deprive asylum seekers of their right to procedural fairness and disproportionately impact vulnerable groups. In the statement, the group argued that diverting asylum seekers from the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) to a paper-based Pre Removal Risk Assessment deprives claimants of procedural safeguards and i…