Bill C-431 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (refugee claimants or immigration applicants convicted of an offence on indictment)

This bill is from the 37th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in September 2002.

Sponsor

Ted White  Canadian Alliance

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Feb. 22, 2002
(This bill did not become law.)

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-431s:

C-431 (2019) An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act (investments)
C-431 (2013) An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (release of taxpayer’s notices of assessment)
C-431 (2012) An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (release of taxpayer’s notices of assessment)
C-431 (2010) An Act to change the name of the electoral district of Oak Ridges — Markham
C-431 (2009) An Act to change the name of the electoral district of Oak Ridges — Markham
C-431 (2007) An Act to amend the Contraventions Act and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (marihuana)

Immigration and Refugee Protection ActRoutine Proceedings

February 22nd, 2002 / noon


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Canadian Alliance

Ted White Canadian Alliance North Vancouver, BC

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-431, an act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (refugee claimants or immigration applicants convicted of an offence on indictment).

Mr. Speaker, if the Liberal government had been smart enough to pass this bill when I introduced it in the previous parliament, we would not be facing some of the criminal refugee problems that we are facing today.

What the bill will do when it gets passed this time, hopefully, is it will give the crown the ability to deport in lieu of sentence for indictable crimes where they are committed by refugee claimants and the refugee claimant then has no claim to bail or to parole and can be deported from the country immediately. It is a good measure.

I know the government argues, although I do not know where it gets this from, that Canadians want people to serve their time in Canada, that is not true. The polls show people want these criminals out of the country.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)