Media Release
For immediate release
30 April 2014
Court rules that helping refugees is a criminal offence in Canada
The Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR) is deeply disappointed at the decision of the BC Court of Appeal in Appulonappa, which concludes that Parliament intended to make it a criminal offence to help refugees, on a humanitarian basis, and that the Charter allows it.
Media Release
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6 February 2014
Citizenship bill makes Canada less welcoming towards newcomers
Media Release
5 December 2013
The Canadian Council for Refugees welcomed today the Privacy Commissioner’s finding that the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) wrongly applied the label of ‘war criminal’ to a significant number of people.
Canadian Council for Refugees
Canadian Council for Refugees
Media Release
For immediate release
2 July 2013
CCR urges government to drop plans to break up families
The Canadian Council for Refugees today called on the government to abandon proposed changes to the immigration regulations that would undermine families. Background documents reveal that the government’s purely economic rationale for breaking up families is very weak.
Canadian Council for Refugees
Media Release
For immediate release
16 May 2013
New report cards evaluate protections for migrant workers across Canada
The Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR) issued today a series of report cards, summarizing the approaches of the provincial and federal governments on protecting the rights of migrant workers in the “low-skilled” streams of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.