Immigration Policies
This 2002 act outlines Canada’s immigration categories.
What is the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act?
What are laws and policies?
What are economic immigrants?
In the past, Canada restricted immigration from this region.
What is Asia?
Economic immigrants must qualify under this system to enter Canada.
What is the point system?
This day, named after a Supreme Court decision, celebrates refugee rights in Canada.
What is Refugee Rights Day?
This legal document guarantees bilingual and multicultural respect under immigration laws.
What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
This category includes spouses, children, and grandparents of Canadian residents.
What is the family class?
This system, introduced in 1967, evaluates economic immigrants based on skills and education
What is the point system?
The point system evaluates economic immigrants but does not apply to these two categories.
What are refugees and family-class immigrants?
This collective right of Aboriginal peoples ensures their consultation on Canada’s immigration policies.
What are treaty rights?
This type of agreement allows provinces to nominate skilled workers for immigration.
What is the Provincial Nomination Program?
Refugees come to Canada fleeing this type of situation.
What are persecution, torture, or cruel and unusual punishment?
This Supreme Court decision in 1985 ensured refugees have the right to a fair hearing.
What is the Singh decision?
Health factors, like tuberculosis, can affect an application based on this criterion.
What is “excessive demand” on health services?
The Singh decision was based on this section of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
What is Section 7 (right to life, liberty, and security of the person)?
This agreement allows Québec to nominate immigrants and promote French-language education.
What is the Canada-Québec Accord?
This percentage of immigrants is accepted for humanitarian or compassionate reasons.
What is 4%?
Canada signed this international agreement on refugees in 1951.
What is the U.N. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees?
The point system evaluates immigrants based on education, work experience, and this skill.
What is language proficiency?
This government body ensures fair hearings for refugees.
What is the Immigration and Refugee Board?
Canada uses these two tools to manage who enters the country: one outlines principles, and the other sets objectives.
What are laws and policies?
This objective of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act supports immigrant integration into society.
What is promoting successful integration?
This 1956 uprising led Canada to accept 37,000 Hungarian refugees.
What is the Hungarian Revolution?
These medical requirements are waived for refugees under humanitarian concerns.
What are health requirements?
This workforce trend will make immigration essential to Canada’s economy by 2025.
What is an aging population?