[news] A Nation of Carefully Selected Immigrants

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

**Liberal MPs abstain, leading to major changes to immigration policy**

by Maya Rolbin-Ghanie

On March 14, Canada's Conservative government introduced a series of amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). Instead of being presented as an immigration bill, the new reforms were slipped into Bill C-50, the 136-page "budget implementation bill" as pertains to this year's federal budget. The government launched an ad campaign in hundreds of ethnic newspapers, at a cost of $1.1-million, touting the measures while they were still before Parliament. In addition, Stephen Harper's government raised the stakes for any opposition by making the bill a confidence vote.  


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