Chapter 5 Flashcards
(30 cards)
What is the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act?
- 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.
What are the Immigration Categories?
Refugees
Family Class
Economic Immigrants
Other
Explain the immigration category: Refugees
(13%)
People who are escaping persecution, torture, or cruel and unusual punishment
Explain the immigration category: Family Class
Spouses, partners, children, parents and grandparents of people living in Canada.
Explain the immigration category: Economic Immigrants
(55%)
Skilled workers and businesspeople.
Explain the immigration category: Other
(4%)
People accepted as immigrants for humanitarian or compassionate reasons
Objectives of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
• 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
What is outlined in 2006–2007 Plans and Priorities?
Immigration will continue to play a key role in building the Canada of tomorrow and in supporting our economic growth
What is immigration versus law?
• 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.
Explain the Point system?
A way of seeing if a person is qualified to enter Canada based on points and a series of questions
What groups must qualify under the points system?
Economic and Other
What are the 4 immigration factors?
Economic
Political
Health
Security
How does health factor into qualifying as an immigrant?
- 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.
How does economics factor into qualifying as an immigrant?
-There may not be enough room or enough jobs to support them
How does security factor into qualifying as an immigrant?
-Might put the public in danger
How does political factor into qualifying as an immigrant?
-Doesnt want someone to come and try to overthrow the government
What does the point system evaluate people on?
The point system, for example, evaluates people based on their skills and education
What were Canada’s immigration laws in the past?
In the past, Canada favoured immigrants of British ancestry and restricted immigration from Asian countries, such as China and India.
What did Canada do to Chinese immigrants in the past?
Canada discouraged immigration from China by requiring every Chinese immigrant to pay a fixed fee, known as a head tax
What did the Immigration Act 1976 state?
No persons who have engaged in… acts of espionage or subversion against the democratic government
What did the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, 2002 state?
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)
Top five first languages of immigrants?
Mandarin English Arabic Punjabi Spanish
What is the Singh decision?
That once you have landed on Canadian soil you have the same rights as everybody else in Canada
How does immigration involve the collective rights of Aboriginal peoples?
-Expectation to be consulted when the government of Canada makes decisions that fundamentally shape the future of the country
