New federal Bill C-12 features immigration reforms carved out from contentious ‘strong borders’ bill

By Cristin Schmitz ( October 9, 2025, 5:43 PM EDT) -- The federal government has removed about half of its controversial 140-page omnibus “strong borders” bill (C-2) and inserted excised measures into a newly introduced 70-page “immigration and borders” bill (C-12), which proposes many of the same immigration changes that critics had called on Ottawa to scrap....