I think the sense of discrimination that lies at the heart of this bill, treating refugees differently based on how they've arrived in Canada, based on their country of nationality, and therefore being denied equal protection of some key human rights issues—access to appeal provisions, access to family reunification, ability to travel abroad—simply on those grounds is deeply troubling. Yes, we would argue that it does run afoul of obligations we have under international human rights treaties not to treat people in a discriminatory fashion, but it will also have a very serious human impact and cost.
On May 7th, 2012. See this statement in context.