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C-213 An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (cessation of refugee protection)

Protects permanent residents from losing their status or facing removal if their refugee protection ends.

What Bill C-213 would do

The bill would amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to repeal provisions that cause permanent residents to lose their status when their refugee protection ends. It would also remove rules that make these individuals inadmissible to Canada as a result of that cessation. The published material gives no further detail.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment amends the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to repeal provisions related to inadmissibility and loss of status resulting from the cessation of refugee protection for permanent residents.

The government's summary, printed at the front of the bill as introduced.

Kind
Private member's bill
Sponsor
Jenny Kwan, Member of Parliament (Vancouver East)
Introduced
in the House of Commons
Last activity

Where it stands

  1. ProposedJun 18, 2025 Exact stageOutside the Order of Precedence · since June 18, 2025Introduced, but not debated yet.
  2. Being debated
  3. Almost law
  4. Law

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  1. First reading in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  2. Second reading in the House now

  3. Committee in the House not yet

  4. Report stage in the House not yet

  5. Third reading in the House not yet

  6. First reading in the Senate not yet

  7. Second reading in the Senate not yet

  8. Third reading in the Senate not yet

  9. Royal assent not yet

Exact procedural stages

Officially: Outside the Order of Precedence · since June 18, 2025.

  1. House
  2. Senate
  3. Royal assent

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