Fifty per cent more people were deported from Canada last year than a decade ago — proof the system is getting too aggressive with who it gives the boot, says one local immigration lawyer. Figures from the Canada Border Services Agency show deportations from the country have spiked to 12,732 removed last year, compared to 8,361 [...] [...more]
OTTAWA The Harper government is readying for Parliament a package of reforms that for the first time could have Canada fast-tracking refugee claimants from countries where citizens are generally thought to be safe from persecution. Though the proposal has yet to get the final nod from cabinet, Martin Collacott, a former Canadian diplomat who specializes [...] [...more]
Canada will lift a ban on deporting illegal immigrants to Burundi, Liberia and Rwanda after an internal review showed “improved conditions” in those countries, the federal government has announced. “After a thorough review of country conditions and consultations with stakeholders, the government is lifting the suspension of removals to these three countries,” said a statement from [...] [...more]
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, who last week announced controversial visa restrictions on Czechs and Mexicans, said he did so to fix a refugee system that doesn’t work. The Mexican government retaliated by imposing visa restrictions on Canadian diplomats and officials. But while everybody agrees that something has to be done, nobody’s ever been able to define [...] [...more]
Forty years ago, Canada signed the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, binding itself not to expel or return asylum-seekers to a territory where their lives or freedom would be threatened on account of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. Canadians have led the world in [...] [...more]
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