Chapter 5

Question 1

What is the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act?

Answer 1

• It establishes categories of who can come to Canada from other countries to make permanent homes here.
• It lays out the objectives of those categories.

Question 2

What are the Immigration Categories?

Answer 2

Refugees
Family Class
Economic Immigrants
Other

Question 3

Explain the immigration category: Refugees

Answer 3

(13%)

People who are escaping persecution, torture, or cruel and unusual punishment

Question 4

Explain the immigration category: Family Class

Answer 4

Spouses, partners, children, parents and grandparents of people living in Canada.

Question 5

Explain the immigration category: Economic Immigrants

Answer 5

(55%)

Skilled workers and businesspeople.

Question 6

Explain the immigration category: Other

Answer 6

(4%)

People accepted as immigrants for humanitarian or compassionate reasons

Question 7

Objectives of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act

Answer 7

• Pursue social, cultural and economic benefits for all
Canadians.
• Respect the bilingual and multicultural character of Canada.
• Support the development of minority official language
communities in Canada.
• Share the benefits of immigration and support a prosperous
economy across all regions of Canada.
• Reunite families in Canada.
• Promote the successful integration of immigrants into
Canadian society, recognizing that integration involves
mutual obligations for new immigrants and Canadian
society

Question 8

What is outlined in 2006–2007 Plans and Priorities?

Answer 8

Immigration will continue to play a key role in building the Canada of tomorrow and in supporting our economic growth

Question 9

What is immigration versus law?

Answer 9

• Immigration law says who is allowed into Canada.
• Immigration policy sets the procedures for evaluating
immigrants and says how many people are allowed into Canada from year to year.

Question 10

Explain the Point system?

Answer 10

A way of seeing if a person is qualified to enter Canada based on points and a series of questions

Question 11

What groups must qualify under the points system?

Answer 11

Economic and Other

Question 12

What are the 4 immigration factors?

Answer 12

Economic
Political
Health
Security

Question 13

How does health factor into qualifying as an immigrant?

Answer 13

• Their health could put the health of Canadians at risk
• They have a condition that could endanger public safety — for example, a mental disorder.
• Their health could put an “excessive demand” on Canada’s health services — for example, HIV/AIDS.

Question 14

How does economics factor into qualifying as an immigrant?

Answer 14

-There may not be enough room or enough jobs to support them

Question 15

How does security factor into qualifying as an immigrant?

Answer 15

-Might put the public in danger

Question 16

How does political factor into qualifying as an immigrant?

Answer 16

-Doesnt want someone to come and try to overthrow the government

Question 17

What does the point system evaluate people on?

Answer 17

The point system, for example, evaluates people based on their skills and education

Question 18

What were Canada’s immigration laws in the past?

Answer 18

In the past, Canada favoured immigrants of British ancestry and restricted immigration from Asian countries, such as China and India.

Question 19

What did Canada do to Chinese immigrants in the past?

Answer 19

Canada discouraged immigration from China by requiring every Chinese immigrant to pay a fixed fee, known as a head tax

Question 20

What did the Immigration Act 1976 state?

Answer 20

No persons who have engaged in… acts of espionage or subversion against the democratic government

Question 21

What did the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, 2002 state?

Answer 21

A permanent resident or a foreign national is
inadmissible on security grounds for:
(a) engaging in an act of espionage or an act of
subversion against a democratic government,
(b) engaging in or instigating the subversion
(c) engaging in terrorism;
(d) being a danger to the security of Canada;
(e) engaging in acts of violence
(f) being a member of an organization that there
are reasonable grounds to believe engages, has
engaged or will engage in acts referred to in
paragraph (a), (b) or (c)

Question 22

Top five first languages of immigrants?

Answer 22

Mandarin
English
Arabic
Punjabi
Spanish

Question 23

What is the Singh decision?

Answer 23

That once you have landed on Canadian soil you have the same rights as everybody else in Canada

Question 24

How does immigration involve the collective rights of Aboriginal peoples?

Answer 24

-Expectation to be consulted when the government of Canada makes decisions that fundamentally shape the future of the country

Question 25

What do treaties and agreements between First Nations, Inuit or Métis peoples and the government of Canada do?

Answer 25

Create a commitment for Canada and Aboriginal peoples to work together and share prosperity

Question 26

What challenges can create obstacles to full participation in Canada’s economy for individuals from First Nations, Inuit or Métis communities?

Answer 26

Some Aboriginal peoples, however, continue to

face health, education and employment challenges linked to poverty and the impact of past policies and laws

Question 27

What does the Assembly of First Nations, Resolution no. 49 state?

Answer 27

• Canada fails to address the needs of First Nation communities
• Canada fails to consult with the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) leadership on
• to freeze all immigration coming into Canada until the federal government addresses the issues

Question 28

In what ways can provinces influence and

implement immigration policies?

Answer 28

Provincial Nomination Program

Question 29

Explain the Provincial Nomination Program

Answer 29

-Provinces can “nominate” a percentage of the immigrants Canada selects each year. Provinces can specify that it needs immigrants with particular skills
- Can set up their own
immigration offices in foreign countries.
-Canada can’t require immigrants to settle in
particular places or work in particular jobs.

Question 30

Canada-Québec Accord?

Answer 30

• Québec can nominate the percentage of immigrants to Canada that corresponds to its population within Canada.
• require immigrants who settle in Québec to send their children to French-language schools
• Québec seeks immigrants whose first language is French.