OTTAWA - MPs on the House of Commons national security committee have amended the government's border security bill, C-12, to restrict the benefits people subject to removal orders can access.

MPs debated more than 50 amendments during a clause-by-clause analysis of the bill that began Tuesday afternoon and stretched into early Wednesday morning.

Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner added an amendment that prevents anyone subject to a removal order from accessing federal social services beyond emergency medical care. Rempel Garner said part of the rationale for this change is to discourage deportees from using procedural methods to prolong their time in Canada, especially when there is a family doctor shortage.

Another amendment proposed by Rempel Garner passed, requir

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