Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Human Rights

Issue 6 - Report of the Committee

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights has the honour to present its

ELEVENTH REPORT

Your Committee, to which was referred Bill C-280, An Act to Amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (coming into force of sections 110, 111 and 171), has, in obedience to the Order of Reference of Tuesday, March 4, 2008, examined the said Bill and now reports the same with the following amendment:

Clause 1, page 1:

(a) Replace line 9 with the following:

``and 171 come into force one year after the day on which a'';

(b) Add after line 14 with the following:

``(3) For greater certainty, a decision made before the coming into force of section 110 by the Refugee Protection Division or the Convention Refugee Determination Division is not subject to an appeal under that section.

(4) Despite subsection (3), an appeal may be taken under section 110 against a decision that was made by the Refugee Protection Division before the coming into force of that section and that is referred back to it by the Federal Court after the coming into force of that section.''.

Respectfully submitted,

A. RAYNELL ANDREYCHUK

Chair