CBA offers Parliament ‘better way’ forward to reform beleaguered immigration and refugee system
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Mario Bellissimo of Toronto’s Bellissimo Law Group PC, chair of the working group of immigration specialists who devised the Canadian Bar Association’s 100 recommendations for comprehensive immigration reform, said ‘there is a better way’ to modernize Canada’s beleaguered immigration and refugee system, but Bill C-2 is ‘the wrong way to go.’

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 @ 5:24 PM

Last Updated: Thursday, September 18, 2025 @ 10:15 AM

As parliamentary debate resumed yesterday over the Liberal government’s proposed ad hoc fixes for Canada’s creaky immigration and refugee system, the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) is offering legislators a detailed roadmap for wholesale modernization that charts an effective, fair and constitutionally sound way forward, members of the immigration bar say. ... [read more]

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