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Amnesty International, the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and the Canadian Council for Refugees called for the withdrawal of the bill, claiming that it has provisions that would give "Ministers broad, unfettered and unprecedented powers," and would: [4]
The following year, OPIC and AICC joined together to form the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants (CAPIC), thereby succeeding CIPC and adopting its original name. In April 2008, the Parliamentary Committee for Citizenship and Immigration re-examined the subject, travelling across Canada to hear testimony.
The Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR; formerly known as the Standing Conference of Canadian Organizations Concerned about/for/with Refugees) [1] is a Montreal-based non-governmental organization [2] that critiques the Government of Canada's public policy regarding refugee settlement and determination, and provides consultation to Canadian immigration authorities.
The Immigration Act, 1976, insured by the Parliament of Canada, was the first immigration legislation to clearly outline the objectives of Canadian immigration policy, define refugees as a distinct class of immigrants, and mandate the Canadian government to consult with other levels of government in the planning and management of immigration.
These groups included Amnesty International, [9] the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, [10] the Association québécoise des avocats et avocates en droit de l'immigration, [11] the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, [12] [13] the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, [14] the Canadian Council for Refugees, [15] and a group of ...
Canadian Conference of the Arts; Canadian Council on International Law; Canadian Criminal Justice Association; ... Refugee Education Council;
James Hathaway (born 1956) is a Canadian-American scholar of international refugee law and related aspects of human rights and public international law.His work has been frequently cited by the most senior courts of the common law world, and has played a pivotal role in the evolution of refugee studies scholarship.
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, ss. 7, 9, 10; Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, S.C. 2001, c. 27, ss. 33, 77 to 85 Charkaoui v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) , 2007 SCC 9, is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on the constitutionality of procedures for determining the reasonableness of a security ...