CCR Resolutions Database

1. Claimants have been deported while waiting for decisions from the Federal Court;
2. Claimants were deported who subsequently become eligible for an appeal at the RAD;

1. CBSA has acknowledged that it has provided recommendations to airlines that have resulted in the refusal to allow persons in Hungary to board flights to Canada on the alleged grounds of not possessing proper documentation to enter Canada;
2. Hungary is a visa exempt country and the passengers in question possessed valid passports and no actual deficiency in their documents has been reported;
3. The logical conclusion is that CBSA officials advised the airline that the persons in question were lying about their intentions to visit Canada temporarily, and were hiding an intention to remain permanently in Canada;
4. CBSA’s recommendation was apparently based on the persons’ Roma ethnicity, which constitutes the use of racial profiling to prevent persons who have proper documentation from visiting Canada;

1. Social media (including Facebook) are increasingly being used by CBSA and IRCC to investigate foreign nationals and/or permanent residents;
2. There are serious concerns about how social media is used by these agencies.

A large number of Hungarian Roma have been so poorly represented by their lawyers that the law society sanctioned the lawyers;

1. Islamophobia and racist discrimination that disproportionately target newcomer youth are growing;
2. This discrimination is being amplified by new and existing federal legislation; 

1. The freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining are internationally recognized as fundamental principles and rights in the workplace;
2. Some jurisdictions in Canada effectively prevent workers from unionizing or collectively bargaining based on their immigration status or sector of employment;

1. The General Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted a new protocol to the Forced Labour Convention in June 2014 in order to address gaps in the implementation of the Convention, and to protect vulnerable workers from abuse;
2. Canadian labour laws fail to adequately protect migrant workers, leaving them at risk of abuse, conditions of forced or compulsory labour, exploitation and human trafficking; this is a growing yet preventable problem;

1. In Canada, some workers are excluded from labour protections such as labour standards and workers compensation, health and safety protections and effective anti-reprisals protections, based on their immigration status;
2. Some jurisdictions in Canada explicitly exclude categories of workers such as domestic workers and agricultural workers, who are disproportionately migrant workers; 

1. The rampant expansion and continuous demand for the low-skilled (now low-wage) streams of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) make it clear that the labour shortages being filled are long-term and not temporary;
2. The 2011 rule limiting migrant workers in the low-wage stream of the TFWP (previously known as the low-skilled pilot project) to four years of work in Canada, was intended to reinforce the temporary nature of the program, despite the continuing nature of the demand;
3. The above time limits, which only apply to workers in the low-wage stream, exacerbate existing vulnerabilities;
4. Canada’s traditional immigration approach was focused on nation-building through permanent immigration that met the broad range of labour needs across the Canadian economy; all workers were part of the national project;
5. Canada’s shift towards temporary labour migration promotes a two-tiered, stratified society;

1. Gender identity is a fluid concept;
2. Refugees may be persecuted because of their gender identity;
3. Migrants’ gender identity may change before and after they arrive in Canada;
4. Trans newcomers to Canada experience barriers in obtaining government documents which reflect their gender identity;
5. CIC policies state that its documents cannot be changed to reflect persons’ lived gender identity;
6. Provincial and Territorial Human Rights Codes protect the right to gender identity and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms prohibits discrimination; 

1. The CCR is committed to ensuring protection for all persons experiencing gender based violence;
2. There are more than 1,000 missing and murdered First Nations, Inuit and Metis women and girls;
3. First Nations, Inuit and Metis women and girls experience high levels of violence throughout Canada;
4. The affected communities are calling for a national inquiry;

Citizenship is fundamental to who we are as a country;

1. The CCR resolved in November 2013 to honour all the Treaties upon which this country is founded and which bind all of us as treaty peoples;
2. Newcomers to Canada enter into that treaty relationship when they become resident in this country;
3. The State does not make newcomers aware of their treaty responsibilities;

1. CIC stops processing a permanent resident application upon the death of the applicant, and stops processing a sponsorship application upon the death of the sponsor;
2. Stopping the process affects family members who are included as dependants in the application;
3. Canada has an obligation to consider the best interests of affected children and act in accordance with humanitarian and compassionate principles.

1. Canada as a nation has yet to fully respect the Indigenous nations and honour their inherent rights as acknowledged by the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and provided for by the many subsequent Treaties.
2. Injustices and harms have been – and continue to be – perpetrated upon Indigenous peoples as a result of the colonization of the First Peoples and the racist policies of the governments in Canada.
3. Despite Canada's economic prosperity, First Peoples continue to experience a disproportionate level of poverty and related disparities as compared to the rest of the population.
4. As Treaty peoples, we share a vision for Canada which promises fairness, respect, justice, equality and prosperity for everyone on these lands and territories.
5. We believe that the first critical step towards realizing that vision is the rebuilding and renewing of the relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples of Canada through a process of reconciliation that fully honours our respective roles as Treaty peoples.

1. For refugees from countries such as Syria and Afghanistan, and urban refugees in many countries, there is no possibility of receiving timely or any refugee status determination by UNHCR or a host country.
2. The requirement of host country or UNHCR recognition as refugees in order to be considered as eligible for sponsorship by a Group of 5 or by a Community Sponsor is a de facto limit on the Private Sponsorship of Refugees program that discriminates against refugees who do not have timely or any access to status determination.
3. The CCR has adopted many resolutions over the years in support of non-discrimination in access to refugee resettlement and of family reunification.

1. Family  reunification is a central objective of the immigration programs of Canada and Quebec;
2. Canada has signed and ratified international conventions which affirm the principle of family unity and that the family is entitled to protection by society and the state;
3. These positions are affirmed in CCR’s Family reunification Resolution of June 1997, Increased commitment to family reunification Resolution of November 2011 and several other CCR resolutions;
4. Proof of minimum income requirement is already exempted for certain family members such as spouse, common-law partner, conjugal partner or dependent child;

CCR has numerous resolutions on refugee resettlement targets and levels, including Resolution 14 of November 2003 on “Refugee Resettlement Targets”;

1. The Department of Citizenship and Immigration has outlined forthcoming changes to Canada’s Refugee Resettlement Program that use both protection and immigration criteria and, among other changes, call for a limiting of the numbers of refugees resettled who have high needs for services and support to achieve integration; furthermore these changes will unfairly disadvantage women refugees, the elderly and other vulnerable groups;
2. The changes include criteria for selection based on Canada’s foreign or economic interests and ministerial interests;
3. Recent changes to Canada’s Immigration Program will ensure that more immigrants will arrive with skills and expertise that will reduce the needs for settlement and integration services and supports;

The Government of Canada is proposing to reduce the maximum age of dependants in the Immigration and Refuge Protection Regulations from under 22 years of age to under 19 years of age;

1. The CCR’s 2003 resolution calls on its members to sensitize themselves on the issues facing First Nations communities and explore ways of having meaningful dialogue with these communities;
2. The CCR needs to further this position by taking concrete action to strengthen relationships with indigenous communities;
3. The CCR also must incorporate awareness of the history and present realities of indigenous peoples in our activities and our work;

1. It has become clear over the last decades that many corporations are complicit in human rights violations that contribute to forced displacement;
2. Many governments increasingly support these corporate activities through their economic development policies, further undermining protection of vulnerable populations;

1. It is estimated that the backlog of refugee claims at the IRB will be approximately 38,000 at the time Bill C 31 comes into effect,
2. This backlog will severely hamper the functioning of the new system,
3. These individuals will be denied access to the Pre-Removal Risk Assessment (PRRA) and to consideration on Humanitarian and Compassionate grounds solely due to delays in processing their claims at the Immigration and Refugee Board, and
4. Canada and other jurisdictions have implemented regularization programs to eliminate backlogs prior to changes in the refugee determination system

1. Proceedings at the IRB involving refugees and refugee claimants are held in private by operation of law;
2. Disclosure of information regarding refugees can place applicants, their family members and associates at risk;
3. The information contained in judicial review records routinely includes protected private information;

1. Anyone who resides in Canada should be entitled to an acceptable level of healthcare;
2. The Canada Health Act enshrines the principle of universality;
3. Preventative healthcare is both more humane and more economical than curative healthcare; and
4. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognizes that everyone has the right to “the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health” and that States have a duty of non-discrimination in the realization of that right.