Day 1 - Tuesday, November 18

Detailed Daily Program

(Information subject to changes and will be updated as new details become available)

Tuesday, November 18

9am - 10am: Working Group Meetings

• *Immigration & Settlement
  Location: Details to come
• *Inland Protection
  Location: Details to come
• *Overseas Protection and Resettlement
  Location: Details to come

*Please note that the Working Group Meetings are closed to representatives of the Government and the media.

10am - 10:30am: Coffee Break

Location: Details to come

10:30am - 12:30pm: Plenary

• 2025 Opening Plenary
  Location: Details to come

12:30pm - 1:30pm: Lunch

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1:30pm - 3pm: Workshops Bloc A

• A1: Details to come
  Location: Details to come
• A2: Technology and Surveillance in Migration: Risks and Opportunities
  Location: Details to come

  This workshop will help CCR members consider how to approach the use of digital technology in migration, exploring both the risks and opportunities that technology poses to migrants and service providers. We will discuss advances in surveillance technology and strategies to ensure digital safety for migrants and for those who support them. We will also look at how technology can be leveraged to advance access to justice for migrants.

• A3: Building Common Ground: Newcomers, Refugees, Settlers, and Indigenous Communities in Dialogue
  Location: Details to come

  This workshop invites participants to consider intersections between Indigenous experiences of racism and colonialism and the realities of people settling in Canada, while exploring how commonality can bring us together. Participants will be encouraged to embrace both comfort and discomfort, recognizing that where our feet are from shapes how we walk in solidarity. We will discuss the responsibility of those in settlement services to listen deeply to Indigenous stories and recognize that Reconciliation can only be addressed together. Real progress requires community-based action embedded in policies and practices. Drawing inspiration from Indigenous narratives and community-led approaches, the workshop will highlight examples of collaboration across the sector while encouraging reflection, dialogue, and a shared commitment to Truth and Reconciliation.

• A4: Details to come
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3pm - 3:30pm: Coffee Break

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3:30pm - 5pm: Workshops Bloc B

• B1: Details to come
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• B2: Details to come
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• B3: Breaking Down Silos: Enhancing Collaboration Across Sectors
  Location: Details to come

  It is inspiring to see collaboration and coalitions building that responds to a need in new ways. We often struggle to build coalitions when situations arise that require cooperation, partly because we often don’t see beyond our own context and the specific roles we play in providing durable solutions for refugees. This workshop will look at examples of coalitions that came together to solve a problem, what challenges they faced, and how they overcame them.

• B4: Challenging the Safe Third Country Agreement: Rethinking Advocacy and Mobilization
  Location: Details to come

  Rooted in a participatory approach, this workshop aims to reinvigorate mobilization against the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA). We will begin with an update on the ongoing legal challenges to the STCA, while examining the on-the-ground impacts of its current enforcement and its exceptions at the border. Next, we will explore a successful case of climate justice litigation that may inspire and inform our advocacy strategies against the STCA. We will close with a collective reflection on the lessons learned and gains achieved from this mobilization, and how they can fuel our own.

5:15pm - 6:15pm: Caucuses

• Caucus 1: Details to come
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• Caucus 2: Details to come
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• Caucus 3: Details to come
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7pm - 9pm: Social event

• Social event
  Location: will be shared at a later date