This amendment actually relates to that last clause there. I'm moving that Bill C-12, in clause 72, be amended by adding after line 8 on page 29 the following:
(1.1) An order made under this section or section 87.302 or 87.303 is in the public interest if it addresses a serious threat to public health or any matter referred to in section 34.
Mr. Chair, this is actually another one of the major issues that is of grave concern to the NGOs that work with newcomers. They feel that the sweeping new proposed powers to cancel entire categories of immigration documents and applications in the “public interest” also allows the government to suspend the right to make new applications in a specific category and suspend and terminate the processing of applications already submitted, including applications for permanent or temporary residence, or for work or study permits, if it is deemed to be in the “public interest” to do so.
This not only affects international students and migrant workers, but reaches to every category of newcomer, and that does not—