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Parliament Video: Jenny Kwan Tables Petitions on December 10th

On December 10, 2018, I tabled four petitions:

Jenny Kwan (NDP) Vancouver East, BC

"Mr. Speaker, I have four petitions to table today. Two of them are on the same topic, so I will present them together. The petitioners call on the government to repeal paragraph 38(1)(c) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. They note that the immigration law discriminates against people with disabilities. In particular, it makes excessive and arbitrary demands that are inaccurate, and does not account for the contributions of individuals and their families before determining that they are not admissible to Canada. It also notes that this is in contravention to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights."

 

https://openparliament.ca/debates/2018/12/10/jenny-kwan-3/

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