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

This bill makes a targeted change to Canada's immigration law. Currently, under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, a permanent resident who was originally granted status as a refugee can lose that permanent resident status, and be found inadmissible to Canada, if it is later determined that their refugee protection has "ceased" — for example, if conditions in their home country changed, or if they took actions such as reacquiring citizenship there or returning to live there. This can happen automatically, without a separate assessment of whether the person still needs protection or has built a life in Canada.

Bill C-213 repeals the two specific legal provisions that create this rule: section 40.1, which makes cessation of refugee protection a ground of inadmissibility, and paragraph 46(1)(c.1), which says a person loses permanent resident status when a final decision is made that their refugee protection has ceased.

The practical effect is that permanent residents who came to Canada as refugees would no longer automatically lose their permanent resident status or become inadmissible simply because their refugee protection is later found to have ended. The bill does not make other changes to immigration or refugee law beyond removing these two provisions.

This bill repeals two provisions of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that made the cessation of a permanent resident's refugee protection a ground for inadmissibility and loss of status.

• What is repealed — Section 40.1, which made cessation of refugee protection a ground of inadmissibility, and paragraph 46(1)(c.1), which made cessation a ground for loss of permanent resident status, are both struck from the Act.
• Effect on permanent residents — permanent residents whose refugee protection has ceased (for example, because conditions changed or they reacquired a nationality) would no longer automatically face a finding of inadmissibility or loss of their permanent resident status on that basis.
• Discretion — the bill removes an existing automatic legal consequence rather than granting any new discretionary power to a minister, officer, or tribunal.
• Future regulation — the text contains no provision directing future regulations, transition rules, or guidance on how existing cases affected by the repealed sections are to be handled.
• Oversight — the bill includes no reporting requirement, review clause, or sunset provision; the repeal is permanent once the Act comes into force.