This article was originally published by the Toronto Star on September 18, 2025.
Daniel Kingwell was quoted multiple times in a comprehensive analysis of Bill C-2, the Strong Borders Act, examining how the proposed legislation would give immigration officials unprecedented powers to cancel or suspend applications and documents “en masse for reasons determined to be in the public interest.”
“When they say public interest, that’s anything really,” said Daniel Kingwell, an immigration lawyer in Toronto. “They can turn on a dime. They can suddenly refuse to process many cases. They don’t have to deal with the messiness of finding some reason to refuse that might not be reasonable to a court.”
Kingwell also warned about potential targeting of specific groups: “It’s good for them politically to be able to just cater to whatever the flavour of the day is — whether it’s anti-immigrants generally, whether it’s suddenly all Chinese students are potential spies, and other political outgroups in Iran.”
The article detailed how the legislation aims to address Canada’s massive immigration backlog of over 2.2 million applications, with experts predicting certain programs and applicant groups could be disproportionately affected by the broad new powers.
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