Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2025-10-22 15:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East, NDP)",
        "fr": "Jenny Kwan (Vancouver-Est, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8930239\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I rise to speak today in strong opposition to Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C-12</a>, the so-called border security and immigration act. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930240\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let us be clear: The bill is not a new approach. It is a repackaging, a political sleight of hand. Bill C-12 is simply Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13543613\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-2/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of the border between Canada and the United States and respecting other related security measures\">C-2</a> with a fresh coat of paint. It would not fix the fundamental problems of its predecessor. It doubles down on the same anti-migrant, anti-refugee agenda that civil society, legal experts and human rights advocates have already rejected in overwhelming numbers. More than 300 civil society organizations, from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association to the United Church of Canada, have called for the full withdrawal of both bills. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930241\" data-originallang=\"en\">The organizations are right, because Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C-12</a> would maintain the sweeping new powers in Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13543613\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-2/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of the border between Canada and the United States and respecting other related security measures\">C-2</a> related to refugee asylum seekers, whereby the minister and cabinet, at the expense of transparency, fairness and human rights, could engage in a host of actions and would be given a host of authorities.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930242\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let us talk about some of the most egregious elements of the bill and what it would actually do. Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C-12</a> would give cabinet the authority to suspend or terminate immigration applications and cancel visas, work permits or permanent resident documents whenever it is deemed to be \u201cin the public interest\u201d.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930243\" data-originallang=\"en\">However, there is no definition of \u201cpublic interest\u201d, none; there are no guidelines, no guardrails, no requirements for evidence and no judicial oversight. The government could use this clause to shut down entire classes of immigration overnight.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930244\" data-originallang=\"en\">As reported by the CBC, for people who apply under the humanitarian compassionate stream, the processing time right now is up to 600 months. That is 50 years. For caregivers, it is nine years; for the agri-food stream, it is 19 years. For entrepreneurs, it is 35 years. This is unheard of. By the way, all this came out of the minister's transition binder.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930245\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The fear is that the government will just cancel applications en masse. That is what Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C-12</a> would allow the government to do. It is stoking fear. If the government wants to say that Canada wants to shut its door to asylum seekers, then it should just say that instead of doing this under the pretense that somehow this is just and fair and respects procedural fairness.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930246\" data-originallang=\"en\">This is not good governance. It is not just the actions that the government might take with this kind of power that we should be concerned about. It would be giving that power to future governments as well.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930247\" data-originallang=\"en\">The bill also allows the government to block refugee hearings, to impose retroactive one-year bars on asylum claims and to strip people of their status en masse. These are powers that echo some of the most extreme anti-migrant policies we have seen south of the border.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930248\" data-originallang=\"en\">The <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">Prime Minister</a> likes to claim that this is about modernization and efficiency. It is not. It is peddling a racist, discriminatory narrative with Trump leading the charge.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930249\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The bill would directly harm refugees and vulnerable migrants, people fleeing war, persecution and violence. Frankly, it is un-Canadian. Let us remember that Canada once prided itself on being a refuge for those in need. Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C-12</a> sends the opposite message. It says, \u201cIf you didn\u2019t file your paperwork within a year, we don\u2019t want to hear your case.\u201d</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930250\" data-originallang=\"en\">We can imagine a woman fleeing gender-based violence, arriving in Canada with nothing, struggling with trauma, with no access to legal support, just trying to survive, and then being told she is too late to seek safety. As Women\u2019s Shelters Canada and LEAF have pointed out, arbitrary timelines such as these deny survivors the ability to seek protection when they need it most.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930251\" data-originallang=\"en\">We should be upholding the rule of law, not concentrating power in cabinet. Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C-12</a> represents a dangerous step backward. It undermines our international obligations, our charter values and our reputation as a country that welcomes those in need. The NDP stands with the hundreds of organizations across this country, civil liberties advocates, refugee lawyers, women\u2019s groups and faith communities who are united in saying that we should withdraw Bill C-12 and Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13543613\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-2/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of the border between Canada and the United States and respecting other related security measures\">C-2</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930252\" data-originallang=\"en\">How can the government put forward legislation that will knowingly endanger survivors of violence or those being persecuted for who they love? Sixty-four countries criminalize homosexuality. That is not all. Under the U.S. administration, Trump's executive orders threaten the rights, the health care and the existence of transgender people. More and more, actually, my office has heard from people who are living in fear in the United States.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930253\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C-12</a> is also a blow to civil liberties. It authorizes unprecedented information sharing across departments without proper safeguards. It empowers border agents to access private facilities and detain goods for export. It expands the Coast Guard\u2019s role into intelligence collection and surveillance.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930254\" data-originallang=\"en\">Even though the government removed some of the most intrusive measures from Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13543613\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-2/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of the border between Canada and the United States and respecting other related security measures\">C-2</a>, such as the warrantless access to Canadians' private data, the spirit of the bill remains the same: centralization of power and erosion of rights. The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group has warned that the bill \u201cfast tracks...the most egregious aspects\u201d of its predecessor. It would not fix the problems; it would accelerate them.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930255\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let us not kid ourselves: Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C-12</a> exists because Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13543613\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-2/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of the border between Canada and the United States and respecting other related security measures\">C-2</a> became too toxic to pass. Rather than listening to the hundreds of organizations demanding its withdrawal, the government chose to split the bill into two, hoping Canadians would not notice. However, we do notice. We notice that these measures come at a time when asylum claims have dropped by 34% and when the average number of daily refugee claims has plummeted from 165 to 12.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930256\" data-originallang=\"en\">What is the crisis, exactly, that the government is responding to? This is not about border security; it is about politics. It is about appeasing a Trump-style, anti-immigrant, anti-migrant narrative that is creeping into our political discourse. There is a dangerous pattern emerging under the current government, an obsession with centralizing authority and sidestepping accountability. It is carrying out the Conservatives' agenda but with a new Liberal leader dressed in red. Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C-12</a> would expand cabinet's ability to rule by order. It would give ministers unilateral power to cancel applications, suspend rights and make regulations without parliamentary oversight. This is not the Canadian way. Our immigration and refugee system should be based on clear laws, fair processes and independent decision-making, not on who happens to sit in cabinet.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930257\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let us recognize who would bear the brunt of these policies: women fleeing violence, LGBTQ2+ refugees seeking safety, migrant workers exploited in precarious jobs and indigenous people in border communities, who already face racial profiling. Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C-12</a> would deepen these inequalities instead of addressing them.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930258\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let us make sure we do this right. When we talk about immigration, we are talking about people: families, workers and children who come here seeking safety and a better life. We should be strengthening our refugee system and not weakening it. The Liberals put women and girls at risk of being deported back into danger. The one-year bar is a copycat of the U.S. refugee determination system. Get this: In the U.S., the one-year timeline starts at their most recent entry into the United States. Canada's proposal is actually worse; it starts at the beginning, the first time they visit Canada. This means that if someone visited Canada some years ago as a child and they are now being persecuted, they will not be able to apply for asylum here in Canada, and that is wrong.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8930239\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je prends la parole aujourd'hui pour m'opposer fermement au projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C\u201112</a>, la pr\u00e9tendue loi sur l'immigration et la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 de la fronti\u00e8re.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930240\" data-originallang=\"en\">Soyons clairs: ce projet de loi ne constitue pas une nouvelle approche, mais la m\u00eame approche pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e autrement. Il s'agit simplement d'un tour de passe-passe politique. Le projet de loi C\u201112, c'est le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13543613\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-2/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of the border between Canada and the United States and respecting other related security measures\">C\u20112</a> sous un nouveau vernis. Cette nouvelle mouture ne r\u00e9glerait pas les probl\u00e8mes fondamentaux de la mesure initiale. Le gouvernement s'ent\u00eate \u00e0 poursuivre le m\u00eame programme anti-migrants et anti-r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s que la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile, les juristes et les d\u00e9fenseurs des droits de la personne ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 rejet\u00e9 en tr\u00e8s grand nombre. Plus de 300 organisations de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile, de l'Association canadienne des libert\u00e9s civiles \u00e0 l'\u00c9glise Unie du Canada, ont demand\u00e9 le retrait complet des deux projets de loi.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930241\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ces organisations ont raison, puisque le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C\u201112</a> maintiendrait les nouveaux pouvoirs consid\u00e9rables qui \u00e9taient pr\u00e9vus dans le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13543613\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-2/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of the border between Canada and the United States and respecting other related security measures\">C\u20112</a> au sujet des demandeurs d'asile, en vertu desquels le ministre et le Cabinet pourraient prendre une foule de mesures et se verraient accorder une foule de pouvoirs, au d\u00e9triment de la transparence, de l'\u00e9quit\u00e9 et des droits de la personne.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930242\" data-originallang=\"en\">Parlons de certains des \u00e9l\u00e9ments les plus scandaleux du projet de loi et de ce qu'il ferait r\u00e9ellement. Le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C\u201112</a> donnerait au Cabinet le pouvoir de suspendre l'examen de certaines demandes d'immigration ou d'y mettre fin, et le pouvoir d'annuler des visas, des permis de travail ou des documents de r\u00e9sidence permanente lorsqu'il estime que \u00ab l'int\u00e9r\u00eat public le justifie \u00bb.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930243\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cependant, il n'y a absolument aucune d\u00e9finition de l'\u00ab int\u00e9r\u00eat public \u00bb; il n'y a ni lignes directrices, ni garde-fous, ni exigences en mati\u00e8re de preuve, ni surveillance judiciaire. Le gouvernement pourrait se servir de cette disposition pour fermer du jour au lendemain des cat\u00e9gories d'immigration enti\u00e8res.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930244\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme l'a rapport\u00e9 la CBC, pour les personnes qui pr\u00e9sentent une demande fond\u00e9e sur des consid\u00e9rations d'ordre humanitaire, le d\u00e9lai de traitement actuel peut atteindre 600 mois, soit 50 ans. Pour les aides familiaux, c'est 9 ans; pour le volet de l'agroalimentaire, c'est 19 ans. Pour les entrepreneurs, c'est 35 ans. C'est du jamais vu. Soit dit en passant, tout cela vient du cahier de transition de la ministre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930245\" data-originallang=\"en\">La crainte est que le gouvernement se contente d'annuler un grand nombre de demandes. Le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C\u201112</a> l'y autoriserait. Cela attise la peur. Si le gouvernement veut que le Canada ferme la porte aux demandeurs d'asile, il devrait le dire ouvertement au lieu de pr\u00e9tendre que ce qu'il fait est juste, \u00e9quitable et conforme \u00e0 l'\u00e9quit\u00e9 proc\u00e9durale.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930246\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce n'est pas de la bonne gouvernance. Ce qui doit nous inqui\u00e9ter, ce ne sont pas seulement les mesures que le gouvernement pourrait prendre avec ce genre de pouvoir. Le projet de loi donnerait aussi ce pouvoir aux gouvernements futurs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930247\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le projet de loi permet \u00e9galement au gouvernement de bloquer les audiences de d\u00e9termination du statut de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9, d'imposer un d\u00e9lai maximal d'un an pour pr\u00e9senter une demande de statut de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9 et de retirer le statut de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9 \u00e0 un grand nombre de personnes. Ce sont des pouvoirs qui rappellent certaines des politiques anti-migrants les plus extr\u00eames que nous avons vues au sud de la fronti\u00e8re.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930248\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">premier ministre</a> aime pr\u00e9tendre que c'est une question de modernisation et d'efficacit\u00e9. C'est faux. Cela vient alimenter le genre de discours raciste et discriminatoire qui est mis de l'avant par Trump.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930249\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le projet de loi nuirait directement aux r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et aux migrants vuln\u00e9rables, aux personnes qui fuient la guerre, la pers\u00e9cution et la violence. Bien honn\u00eatement, cela va \u00e0 l'encontre des valeurs canadiennes. N'oublions pas qu'il fut un temps o\u00f9 le Canada \u00e9tait fier d'offrir l'asile aux gens dans le besoin. Le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C\u201112</a> envoie le message contraire en disant aux gens que leur cause ne sera pas entendue si leur demande n'est pas pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e dans un d\u00e9lai d'un an.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930250\" data-originallang=\"en\">Imaginons la situation d'une femme qui fuit la violence fond\u00e9e sur le sexe, qui arrive au Canada sans le sou, qui est aux prises avec des traumatismes, qui n'a pas acc\u00e8s \u00e0 l'aide juridique, qui essaie simplement de survivre, et qui se fait dire qu'il est trop tard pour demander l'asile. Comme l'ont soulign\u00e9 H\u00e9bergement femmes Canada et le Fonds d'action et d'\u00e9ducation juridiques pour les femmes, de tels d\u00e9lais arbitraires emp\u00eachent les survivantes de demander une protection au moment o\u00f9 elles en ont le plus besoin.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930251\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous devrions d\u00e9fendre la primaut\u00e9 du droit au lieu de chercher \u00e0 concentrer le pouvoir au sein du Cabinet. Le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C\u201112</a> repr\u00e9sente un dangereux pas en arri\u00e8re. Il porte atteinte \u00e0 nos obligations internationales, aux valeurs inscrites dans la Charte et \u00e0 notre r\u00e9putation de pays accueillant pour les personnes dans le besoin. Le NPD se joint aux centaines d'organisations de tout le pays, aux d\u00e9fenseurs des libert\u00e9s civiles, aux avocats en droit des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s, aux groupes de femmes et aux communaut\u00e9s religieuses qui s'unissent pour demander le retrait des projets de loi C\u201112 et <a data-HoCid=\"13543613\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-2/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of the border between Canada and the United States and respecting other related security measures\">C\u20112</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930252\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comment le gouvernement peut-il proposer une mesure l\u00e9gislative qui mettra sciemment en danger les survivants d'actes de violence ou les personnes pers\u00e9cut\u00e9es pour leur orientation sexuelle? Soixante-quatre pays criminalisent l'homosexualit\u00e9. Cela ne s'arr\u00eate pas l\u00e0. Sous l'administration am\u00e9ricaine, les d\u00e9crets pr\u00e9sidentiels de Donald Trump menacent les droits, l'acc\u00e8s aux soins de sant\u00e9 et l'existence m\u00eame des personnes transgenres. De plus en plus, mon bureau re\u00e7oit des t\u00e9moignages de personnes qui vivent dans la peur aux \u00c9tats\u2011Unis.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930253\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C\u201112</a> est aussi un coup dur pour les libert\u00e9s civiles. Il autorise un partage d'information sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent entre les diff\u00e9rents minist\u00e8res, sans mesures de protection appropri\u00e9es. Il habilite les agents des services frontaliers \u00e0 acc\u00e9der \u00e0 des installations priv\u00e9es et \u00e0 saisir des marchandises destin\u00e9es \u00e0 l'exportation. Il \u00e9largit le r\u00f4le de la Garde c\u00f4ti\u00e8re pour inclure la collecte de renseignements et la surveillance.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930254\" data-originallang=\"en\">M\u00eame si le gouvernement a retir\u00e9 du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13543613\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-2/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of the border between Canada and the United States and respecting other related security measures\">C\u20112</a> certaines des mesures les plus intrusives, comme l'acc\u00e8s sans mandat aux donn\u00e9es priv\u00e9es des Canadiens, l'esprit du projet de loi demeure le m\u00eame: centraliser les pouvoirs et \u00e9roder les droits. La Coalition pour la surveillance internationale des libert\u00e9s civiles a pr\u00e9venu que le projet de loi C\u201112 \u00ab acc\u00e9l\u00e8re certains des aspects les plus graves \u00bb de son pr\u00e9d\u00e9cesseur. Il ne r\u00e9glerait pas les probl\u00e8mes; il les acc\u00e9l\u00e9rerait.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930255\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ne nous leurrons pas: le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C\u201112</a> existe parce que le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13543613\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-2/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of the border between Canada and the United States and respecting other related security measures\">C\u20112</a> \u00e9tait trop toxique pour \u00eatre adopt\u00e9. Plut\u00f4t que d'\u00e9couter les centaines d'organisations qui exigent son retrait, le gouvernement a choisi de scinder le projet de loi en deux, en esp\u00e9rant que les Canadiens ne s'en apercevraient pas. Malheureusement pour lui, nous voyons clair dans son jeu. Nous constatons que ces mesures sont pr\u00e9sent\u00e9es dans un contexte o\u00f9 les demandes d'asile ont chut\u00e9 de 34 % et o\u00f9 le nombre moyen de demandes d'asile quotidiennes est pass\u00e9 de 165 \u00e0 12.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930256\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c0 quelle crise au juste le gouvernement r\u00e9agit-il? Il ne s'agit pas de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 frontali\u00e8re, mais de politique. Il s'agit d'apaiser un discours anti-immigrants et anti-migrants \u00e0 la Trump qui s'insinue dans notre discours politique. Une tendance dangereuse se dessine sous le gouvernement actuel, une obsession pour la centralisation du pouvoir et le contournement de la responsabilit\u00e9. Il met en \u0153uvre le programme des conservateurs, mais avec un nouveau chef lib\u00e9ral v\u00eatu de rouge. Le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C\u201112</a> \u00e9largirait la capacit\u00e9 du Cabinet \u00e0 gouverner par d\u00e9cret. Il donnerait aux ministres le pouvoir unilat\u00e9ral d'annuler des demandes, de suspendre des droits et de prendre des r\u00e8glements sans surveillance parlementaire. Ce n'est pas la fa\u00e7on de faire au Canada. Notre syst\u00e8me d'immigration et d'accueil des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s devrait \u00eatre fond\u00e9 sur des lois claires, des processus \u00e9quitables et des d\u00e9cisions ind\u00e9pendantes, et non sur la composition du Cabinet.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930257\" data-originallang=\"en\">Reconnaissons qui serait le plus touch\u00e9 par ces politiques: les femmes fuyant la violence, les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s LGBTQ2+ en qu\u00eate de s\u00e9curit\u00e9, les travailleurs migrants exploit\u00e9s dans des emplois pr\u00e9caires et les peuples autochtones des communaut\u00e9s frontali\u00e8res, qui sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 victimes de profilage racial. Le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13632609\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-12/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of Canada's borders and the integrity of the Canadian immigration system and respecting other related security measures\">C\u201112</a> aggraverait ces in\u00e9galit\u00e9s au lieu de les combattre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8930258\" data-originallang=\"en\">Assurons-nous de bien faire les choses. Lorsqu'on parle d'immigration, on parle d'\u00eatres humains, de familles, de travailleurs et d'enfants qui viennent ici en qu\u00eate de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et d'une vie meilleure. Nous devrions renforcer notre syst\u00e8me de d\u00e9termination du statut de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9 et non l'affaiblir. \u00c0 cause des lib\u00e9raux, des femmes et des filles risquent d'\u00eatre renvoy\u00e9es dans un lieu dangereux. L'interdiction d'un an est calqu\u00e9e sur le syst\u00e8me am\u00e9ricain de d\u00e9termination du statut de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9. En effet, aux \u00c9tats\u2011Unis, le d\u00e9lai d'un an est calcul\u00e9 \u00e0 partir de la derni\u00e8re date d'entr\u00e9e. La proposition du Canada est encore pire; le d\u00e9lai serait calcul\u00e9 \u00e0 partir de la toute premi\u00e8re fois qu'on entre au Canada. Cela signifie que si une personne a visit\u00e9 le Canada il y a quelques ann\u00e9es, lorsqu'elle \u00e9tait enfant, et qu'elle est maintenant pers\u00e9cut\u00e9e, elle ne pourra pas demander l'asile ici, au Canada, et c'est inacceptable.</p>"
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    "url": "/debates/2025/10/22/jenny-kwan-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/jenny-kwan/",
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    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
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    "h2": {
        "en": "Strengthening Canada's Immigration System and Borders Act",
        "fr": "Loi visant \u00e0 renforcer le syst\u00e8me d'immigration et la fronti\u00e8re du Canada"
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