Legislation
This is the primary piece of legislation, passed in 2002, that governs immigration in Canada.
What is the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA)?
This category makes up the largest percentage of immigrants to Canada and includes skilled workers and business people.
What are Economic Immigrants
This program allows provinces like Alberta to "nominate" immigrants with specific skills needed in the local workforce.
What is the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP)
Every person wishing to immigrate to Canada must prove they do not have a record of this, which would make them a "security risk."
What is a Criminal Record (or involvement in terrorism/organized crime)?
This term refers to a person who leaves their own country to settle permanently in another.
What is an Immigrant?
One objective of this act is to pursue social, cultural, and ______ benefits for all Canadians.
What is Economic?
This category includes people who are escaping persecution, torture, or cruel and unusual punishment in their home country.
What are Refugees?
Under the Canada-Quebec Accord, Quebec has the right to require that immigrants to their province speak this language.
What is French?
An immigrant may be refused entry if their health condition would put "excessive demand" on this Canadian public service.
What is Healthcare (or social services)?
This is a government's plan or course of action; it describes what the government wants to achieve, whereas a "Law" describes how they will do it.
What is a Policy?
This term refers to the official policy of the IRPA to reunite Canadian citizens and permanent residents with their family members from abroad.
What is Family Reunification?
To enter under this category, a person must be sponsored by a relative already living in Canada who can provide for their needs.
What is the Family Class?
This is the primary reason Alberta might use the Provincial Nominee Program to bring in workers for the oil and gas sector.
What is a Labour Shortage?
This category of immigrant is exempt from the "excessive demand" health requirement to ensure Canada meets its humanitarian goals.
What are Refugees (or family class sponsored spouses/children)?
This term describes the act of leaving one's country of origin to settle in a different country.
What is Emigration?
Under the IRPA, Canada is obligated to fulfill its "international humanitarian commitments" by protecting this specific group of people.
What are Refugees?
This category covers people accepted for humanitarian or compassionate reasons, such as those facing extreme hardship not covered by other categories.
What is the "other" category?
This First Nations organization, the AFN, issued a resolution stating that the federal government should stop all immigration until this group’s needs are met.
What are First Nations, Metis and Inuit?
To ensure safety, all immigrants must undergo this type of "check" to ensure they are not a threat to Canada’s national interests.
What is a Security Clearance (or background check)?
This term refers to the characteristics of a population, such as age, birth rate, and where people live.
What is Demographic?
True or False: One objective of the IRPA is to promote the development of minority official-language communities (Francophone and Anglophone) in Canada.
What is True?
The immigration category that typically contains between 50-60% of all immigrants.
What is Economic class?
Before the Singh Decision, the government could reject a refugee claimant based on a written summary without giving them one of these.
What is an In-person hearing?
Name a class of immigrants that does NOT have to qualify under the Points System.
What is "Family" or "Refugee".
In a political context, this is a formal agreement between two different levels of government, such as the one between Canada and Quebec regarding immigration.
What is an Accord?