OTTAWA — Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner said Thursday she plans to try and "amend the heck" out of the government's border security bill, Bill C-12, with a host of measures targeting the asylum system.

Her proposed changes include disallowing asylum claims from people who transited through Europe or another G7 country on their way to Canada and denying access to social benefits, except emergency medical treatment, for those with a failed asylum claim.

"I think Canadians want some change in this regard. Canada's system for allowing and accepting asylum claims is pretty generous," Rempel Garner said at a press conference on Parliament Hill.

"So somebody who's failed a review, I think it's fair that the only federal benefits that they receive is emergency health car

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