🇨🇦 Ottawa's asylum reform targets exactly who it should — and the CBC is furious

Ahmed arrived in 2021 as an international student, waited four years living comfortably in Canada, then filed a refugee claim in December 2025 only after his status ran out. Bill C-12 now bars claims made more than a year after entry, and suddenly 30,000 people who gamed the system with last-minute applications are panicking. The CBC frames this as cruel, but it's actually enforcement. If you feared persecution back home, you'd claim asylum immediately — not after finishing your degree and exhausting every other option.

The usual playbook: wrap economic migration in identity politics, call any border enforcement bigotry, and hope Canadians don't notice the difference between genuine refugees and those treating our asylum system like a backup visa program. Retroactive to 2020, C-12 is one of the few pieces of legislation that actually closes a loophole instead of creating one. No wonder the legacy media is in mourning.

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