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An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (cessation of refugee protection)
This bill repeals Immigration and Refugee Protection Act provisions that make a permanent resident inadmissible and cause loss of permanent resident status when their refugee protection is ceased. In practice, it would stop the government from stripping permanent residency solely because a former refugee’s protection is later ended (e.g., for reavailment or obtaining another country’s protection). Misrepresentation and other inadmissibility grounds remain unchanged. The change provides greater status stability for former refugees who have become permanent residents.
The bill modestly aligns with economic freedom and administrative efficiency but has limited, indirect effects on growth, competitiveness, exports, or tax incentives; overall impact on Build Canada’s macro tenets is neutral.
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Economic effects are indirect and likely small; the measure mainly concerns immigration status security for a limited cohort.
By removing an ex-post status-revocation pathway, it increases personal security and reduces bureaucratic enforcement actions that can chill work, mobility, and entrepreneurship.
Any productivity gains from improved integration and long-term planning by affected PRs are plausible but modest and not the bill’s primary aim.
No direct connection to trade or export capacity.
Could modestly encourage personal investment and entrepreneurship via status certainty, but lacks targeted measures for innovation or resource development.
Eliminating cessation-based inadmissibility and PR loss likely reduces CBSA/IRB litigation and enforcement workload, lowering administrative costs.
No tax policy changes.
This is a narrow status-rule change with limited macroeconomic impact.
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