Immigration General
This term describes people moving to a new country to live permanently.
What is immigration?
Refugees are people fleeing this.
What is persecution, war, or danger?
Name one factor used in the Points System.
What is age, education, language skills, work experience, or financial ability?
The Chinese Head Tax was introduced after Chinese workers helped build this major Canadian project.
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway?
The main purpose of the PNP is to fill these within a specific province.
What are labour shortages?
This category includes spouses, children, parents, and grandparents.
What is family class?
Canada does not accept refugees based on this system used for economic immigrants.
What is Points System?
The main purpose of the Points System is to select immigrants based on this instead of race or nationality.
What are skills and qualifications?
The Head Tax was meant to discourage immigrants from this group.
Who were Chinese immigrants?
People in this program have a visa with a clear start and end date.
What is the Temporary Foreign Worker program?
This immigration category makes up the largest percentage of newcomers to Canada.
What are economic immigrants?
After the Singh Decision, refugee claimants gained the right to this.
What is a fair in-person hearing?
Economic immigrants must score at least this many points to qualify.
What is 67?
Early immigration policies favoured people of this ancestry.
What is European ancestry?
This program allows provinces to select immigrants based on labour shortages in their region.
What is the Provincial Nomination Program (PNP)?
Under this agreement, Quebec can select a percentage of immigrants and prioritize French speakers.
What is the Canada-Quebec Accord?
Refugee claimants waiting for hearings may receive this from the government.
What are basic necessities (such as housing or support)?
The Points System was introduced in this year.
What is 1967?
Immigration decisions must respect these rights of Francophones and First Nations.
What are collective rights?
Provinces may open immigration offices in other countries to recruit workers with these.
What are the in-demand skills?
Canada's aging population creates this economic need.
What is the need for more workers (labour force growth)?
One criticism of refugee policy is that some people believe claimants are doing this unfairly.
What is "jumping the line"?
The Points System does NOT consider these discriminatory factors.
What are race, religion, or country of origin?
Under Bill C-12, the Immigration Minister can pause or cancel visas for this reason.
What is “public interest”?
Unlike TFWs, PNP immigrants have this status.
What is permanent residency?