Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner says her party plans to put forward multiple amendments to border security Bill C-12 aiming to strengthen Canada’s asylum process and immigration system.
Bill C-12 was tabled by the Liberals on Oct. 8 and is now being studied in the House of Commons public safety committee.
“I think Canadians want some change in this regard. Canada’s system for allowing and accepting asylum claims is pretty generous,” said Rempel Garner, who serves as her party’s immigration critic, during a Nov. 20 press conference in Ottawa.
“The measures [the Liberals] included are not sufficient to truly modernize and fix an utterly failed system, and so Conservatives will propose multiple constructive amendments to the bill in an attempt to improve the legislation and fix Canada’s broken immigration system.”…