Tuesday, April 15, 2014
The Ballroom, The 519 Church Street Community Centre, 519 Church Street
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
To attend, please RSVP at bill-161-panel.eventbrite.ca
Speakers:
Toronto / April 19, 2024 - OCASI – Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants welcomes Bill 173: Intimate Partner Violence Epidemic Act, 2024 passing 2nd reading in the Ontario Legislature, and its’ referral to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy. This brings us closer to having intimate partner violence declared an epidemic in Ontario.
Toronto / May 16, 2024 - Today, OCASI sent a second letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and Minister Miller, calling for urgent action on status regularization.
Visit migrantrights.ca/take-action/email/ to take action.
Toronto / April 12, 2024
Dear Prime Minister and Minister Miller,
Re: Immigration Status Regularization - Permanent Residence For All
Toronto / November 7, 2023
Participatory Policy-making with Refugee Claimants in the City of Toronto was researched and written for OCASI by Sharmarke Dubow, MPP Candidate at the University of Oxford. Mr. Dubow prepared the report as part of the 2023 Master of Public Policy summer placement at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
OCASI made a written submission to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, for the pre-budget consultations in advance of the 2024 federal budget.
September 16, 2022 / Toronto - OCASI wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Sean Fraser to call for an immigration status regularization program that will leave no one behind. Read our letter below:
The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
Justin.Trudeau@parl.gc.ca pm@pm.gc.ca
April 2022 / Toronto
Remove the term “visible minority”, use the term “racialized people” as a designated group and remove citizenship status discrimination. These are some of the recommendations we made in a joint submission to the Federal Employment Equity Act Review Task Force. Read the joint submission by Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change, South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario and OCASI.
August 2021 / Toronto
OCASI made a written submission to the Standing Committee on Finance for pre-budget consultations on the 2022 Federal Budget.
OCASI made the following recommendations:
Toronto / November18, 2021
OCASI made a written submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy on Bill 27: Working for Workers Act, 2021.
The Bill proposes certain changes that are intended to address exploitation and abuse by recruiters. It is not certain if these proposals will be effective. Other proposals in the Bill have the potential to harm workers.
Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has issued a Policy Statement on COVID-19 vaccine mandates and proof of vaccine certificates.
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