Canadian Council for Refugees / Conseil canadien pour les réfugiés
Registration:
51
of
52
(2024-03-01
to
2024-05-12)
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
- Bill C-20 concerning oversight of CBSA and the need to ensure third party access for raising a complaint as well as need for recourse and redress in relation to removals where a complaint has been made
Policies or Program
- Anti Trafficking- Use of Temporary Resident Permits to support rights of trafficked migrants
- CBSA Removals - Seeking a moratorium on removals ahead of the regularization program
- CBSA- Guidelines on Gender based violence and gender considerations
- CBSA- The need to seek alternatives to Detention and work with community based organizations to find them
- Canadian Border Service Agency- Processing of refugee Claimants at the Border
- Family Reunification- Timely and Equitable processing for protected persons and refugees
- Federal Budget - Funding for refugee support Services, resettlement, eligibility and determination processes.
- Immigration Levels - Increasing the levels for Resettled refugees and Protected Persons
- Immigration Refugee Board- policies and processes affecting refugee rights
- Immigration response to global crises- Need for an equitable policy framework to guide these responses.
- Refugee Claimants- Need for a National Plan to address claimant needs and rights
- Refugee Resettlement- Timely and Equitable processing and effective support services
- Regularization of non status people- Need for a broad and comprehensive program with simple application process
- Safe Third Country Agreement - Seeking its termination
- Temporary Foreign Worker PRogram- Need for pathways to Permanent status for migrant workers
- Temporary Foreign Worker Program- with respect to the need to end closed work permits and create open work permts
Policies or Program, Regulation
- Safe Third Country Agreement with the US, with respect to its current application ensuring the availability of the safety valves the Supreme Court referred to (this could be a regulation and is also shaped by policy(
Regulation
- CBSA Removals- ensuring that changes to the fee structure does not harm rights of vulnerable migrants