Bill S-8

An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, to make consequential amendments to other Acts and to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

Status

This bill has received Royal Assent and is, or will soon become, law.

Summary

This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament often publishes better independent summaries.

This enactment amends the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to, among other things,
(a) reorganize existing inadmissibility provisions relating to sanctions to establish a distinct ground of inadmissibility based on sanctions;
(b) expand the scope of inadmissibility based on sanctions to include not only sanctions imposed on a country but also those imposed on an entity or a person; and
(c) expand the scope of inadmissibility based on sanctions to include all orders and regulations made under section 4 of the Special Economic Measures Act .
It also makes consequential amendments to the Citizenship Act and the Emergencies Act .
Finally, it amends the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations to, among other things, provide that the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, instead of the Immigration Division, will have the authority to issue a removal order on grounds of inadmissibility based on sanctions under new paragraph 35.1(1)(a) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act .

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.

Votes

June 19, 2023 Passed Concurrence at report stage of Bill S-8, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, to make consequential amendments to other Acts and to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

June 19, 2023 Failed Bill S-8, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, to make consequential amendments to other Acts and to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (report stage amendment)

June 16, 2023 Passed Time allocation for Bill S-8, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, to make consequential amendments to other Acts and to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

Feb. 13, 2023 Passed 2nd reading of Bill S-8, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, to make consequential amendments to other Acts and to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee, on May 9, 2023

Brett Bush, Executive Director, Immigration and Asylum Policy Innovation, Canada Border Services Agency
Stephen Burridge, Director, Sanctions Policy and Operations Coordination, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
Kelly Acton, Vice-President, Strategic Policy Branch, Canada Border Services Agency
Saman Fradette, Director, Migration Control and Horizontal Policy Division, Department of Citizenship and Immigration

Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee, on May 11, 2023

Peter Harder, Senator, Ontario, PSG
Mario Bellissimo, Lawyer, Certified Specialist, Bellissimo Law Group Professional Corporation, As an Individual
Marcus Kolga, Senior Fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute, As an Individual
Ihor Michalchyshyn, Chief Executive Officer, Ukrainian Canadian Congress
Orest Zakydalsky, Senior Policy Advisor, Ukrainian Canadian Congress
Lisa Middlemiss, Chair, Immigration Law Section, The Canadian Bar Association
Abdulla Daoud, Executive Director, The Refugee Centre

Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee, on May 16, 2023

Stephen Burridge, Director, Sanctions Policy and Operations Coordination, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
Scott Nesbitt, General Counsel, Department of Justice, Legal Services Unit, Canada Border Services Agency
Marie-Hélène Sauvé, Legislative Clerk
Richard St Marseille, Director General, Immigration Policy and External Review, Canada Border Services Agency