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SPP Summit - New Orleans
April 21-22, 2008
SPP Summit - Montebello
August 19-21, 2007
Teach-in
March 31 to April 1, 2007
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Workshop 21
What Safe Third Country? How Canada and the U.S. Join Forces to Undermine the Security of Refugees
Description
This workshop will tackle two of the major threats to non-citizens rights in Canada: the U.S.-Canada Safe Third Country Agreement on allocation of refugee claims, and the security certificate issues. Since December 2004, Canada has declared the US a safe third country for refugees, closing the land border to most refugees seeking asylum in Canada. How safe is the US for refugees? Meanwhile, a few weeks ago the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the use of secret evidence to detain and deport people under security certificates violates the Charter. What does this mean for the rights of non-citizens?
Leaders
Janet Dench, Executive Director, Canadian Council for Refugees
Matthew Behrens, Coordinator, Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada
Michael Bossin, Staff Lawyer at Community Legal Services, Ottawa. Bossin teaches immigration law in the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, and represented Amnesty International before the Supreme Court of Canada in the recent challenge to the security certificate regime.
Language
Workshop presented in English. Questions in either English or French.
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