First, Bill C-31 would impose unrealistic and unfair deadlines on refugee claimants that would force them to make representations, perhaps at the moment they are most vulnerable,
for example having just experienced violence, torture or sexual assault, and then finding themselves in a new country in an unfamiliar situation, not to mention a situation where a language barrier may likely exist, and
where a failure to meet deadlines may pre-emptively disqualify their claim without affording them a fair and reasonable opportunity to establ
...[+++]ish such a refugee claim.