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I want to underline some of what we've heard from witnesses during the course of the study on this bill.
We heard from a number of witnesses who said the net is being cast too widely and they addressed sections 34, 35, and 37. Section 34 of IRPA is on security and inadmissibility. Section 35 is on human or international rights violations, and section 37 is on organized criminality. Sections 34, 35, and 37 are too broad in IRPA and may unintentionally and unjustly exclude people who would present no threat or danger if they were to come to Canada.
I want to go back to an example that the Canadian Council for Refugees provided in their briefing to the committee. The example was an Iranian girl who was involved with an opposition group when she was a teenager. She attended meetings and went to demonstrations and handed out flyers. Because of her political activity, she was arrested and imprisoned for five years in the Evin prison in Iran where she was tortured. She later fled and came to Canada. She has been found to be inadmissible on security grounds because of her association between the ages of 14 and 16 with the banned group.
This young woman, who was really just fighting for her rights, fighting for her ability to exist as a person, and was giving out flyers, was tortured in a prison and escaped and came to Canada, and now we're deeming her inadmissible. I think she's a great example of somebody who really wouldn't pose a threat to Canadian citizens or the Canadian community if she came here. We know from legal experts that this net is being cast too broadly.
Once again, I am going to defer to the expertise of the lawyers and the people on the ground who have been dealing with these cases day in and day out, who have again and again said that this net is being cast too widely and that we should make adjustments to it.