In late March, though, Ahmed’s prospects for staying in Canada changed after Ottawa passed Bill C-12, a sweeping asylum reform barring people from making refugee claims if more than a year had elapsed since their first entry into Canada. The law is retroactive to June 24, 2020, and applies to claims made on or after June 3, 2025.

This is a rather important detail the headline doesn’t mention. It appears the law change disproportionately impacts LGBTQ people, victims of domestic violence, and others who’s situations changed after moving here, but it isn’t an explicitly anti LGBTQ law as the headline somewhat implies.