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The Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants, OCASI, is the umbrella organization for immigrant-serving and refugee-serving agencies in Ontario, and it now has over 250 member agencies across the province.
We appreciate the opportunity to submit this brief to the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. This brief highlights our member agencies' concerns about potential impacts on the communities they serve.
We want to draw attention to the possible negative impacts and unforeseen consequences of Bill C-12 on women and other survivors of gender-based violence, and the disproportionate impact on Black and other racialized people and communities. These measures would weaken refugee protections, undermine charter rights and contravene Canada's—