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e-807 (Refugees)
- Keywords
- Agreements and contracts
- Canada–U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement
- Canada-United States relations
- Humanitarian grounds
- Refugee claims processing
- Third country
E-petition
Initiated by Laurin Liu from Mulgrave-et-Derry, Quebec
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
Whereas:
- Under the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the United States, refugee claimants are required to request refugee protection in the first safe country they arrive in, unless they qualify for an exception to the Agreement;
- President Trump has approved an executive order that suspended entry of all refugees to the United States for 120 days, barred Syrian refugees indefinitely, and blocked entry into the United States for 90 days for citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries, as well as barring green card holders from those countries from re-entering the United States; and
- The deportation and denial of entry to lawful travelers and asylum-seekers is likely to cause irreparable harm to individuals and those fleeing terror, torture or inhuman or degrading treatment.
We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to immediately rescind the “Safe Third Country Agreement”, and that immediate steps be taken to allow special consideration of humanitarian and compassionate reasons for entry to Canada as enabled by the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.
- Open for signature
- February 1, 2017, at 7:43 a.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- June 1, 2017, at 7:43 a.m. (EDT)
