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Peter Nyers, Professor of Political Science, McMaster University

Canada must grant permanent immigration status to undocumented residents

A woman takes part in a protest in Montréal in January 2021 to demand status for all workers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

In the December 2021 mandate letter to the newly appointed Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, the Liberal government tasked him with exploring “ways of regularizing status for undocumented workers who are contributing to Canadian communities.”

Sean Fraser has since said he’s working on designing a regularization program that can help address this issue.

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