Different legislations Flashcards
National Policy objectives :
It wanted to recruit immigrants to fulfill the objectives of the National Policy:
- to promote Canadian industry,
- finish the national railway
- settle the west.
(U.S., Britain, and many parts of Europe, but not countries with French-speaking populations, such as France, Belgium, or Switzerland.)
Who was the national policy formulated by:
The National Policy was formulated by John A.
Macdonald’s Conservative government in 1873.
Immigration and Refugee
Protection Act?
It establishes categories of who can come to Canada from other countries to make permanent homes here.
Objectives of Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, 2002:
Objectives for immigration:
• 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
When was the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act made:
2002
Citizenship and Immigration Canada,
is the federal department responsible for putting
Canada’s immigration legislation into action.
Where does Citizenship and Immigration Canada, come from:
It comes from a document that describes the government’s plans for immigration in the future.
After immigration you have to:
Complete formal application and submit it to Citizenship and Immigration Canada:
The point system dates from:
The point system dates from 1967.
Komagata Maru date
1914
When was the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act?
1951
Canada made refugees one of its immigration
categories. The change meant that Canada accepted refugees steadily, instead of crisis by crisis.
1976,
IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE
PROTECTION ACT, 2002
Objectives for Canada’s refugee program:
• Save lives and offer protection to people
who are displaced and persecuted?
• Fulfill and affirm Canada’s international
commitments to protect refugees.
• Grant fair consideration to people who
claim to be persecuted, as an expression
of Canada’s humanitarian ideals.
• Offer refuge to people facing persecution
because of race, religion, political opinion
or membership in a social group, and to
people who face torture, or cruel and
unusual treatment or punishment.
Immigration Act 1976
No person shall be granted admission who is a member of any of the following classes:
• persons who have engaged in… acts of espionage or
subversion against a democratic government, institutions, or processes, as they are understood in Canada…
• persons who there are reasonable grounds to believe
will, while in Canada, engage in or instigate the
subversion by force of any government…
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, 2002
.
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,
institution or process as they are understood in
Canada;
(b) engaging in or instigating the subversion by
force of any government;
(c) engaging in terrorism;
(d) being a danger to the security of Canada;
(e) engaging in acts of violence that would or might
endanger the lives or safety of persons in
Canada; or
(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).
