Laws, Policies, and Accords
Citizenship
Canadian Immigration History
Immigration in Canada Today
Definitions & Statistics
100

This act was created in 1976 and revised in 2002.

What is the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act?

100
One of these 2 languages need to be spoken fluently in order to become a citizen of Canada.

What is French or English?

100

Before WWII, the Canadian government wanted immigrants to do this.

What is assimilate?

100

The highest amount of immigrants to Canada come from this country.

What is India?

100

Immigrants that come to Canada that are sponsored by their family members who are already in Canada, or citizens of Canada.

What are family-class immigrants?

200

This agreement requires French speaking immigrants to send their children to French schools.

What is the Canada-Quebec Accord?

200

Immigrants to Canada need to provide this to keep others safe.

What is a clean health record?

200

This was applied to Chinese immigrants coming to Canada.

What is the head tax?
200
Economic immigrants need this amount of points to come to Canada.

What are 67 points?

200

Relating to or constituting several cultural or ethnic groups within a society.

What is multicultural?

300

The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act was revised partly because of this.

What is terrorism?

300

An immigrant must become this before becoming a citizen of Canada.

What is a permanent resident?

300

This led to refugees being allowed the right to a quick and fair hearing.

What is the Singh Decision?

300

This program allows provinces to nominate a certain % of immigrants coming to Canada.

What is the Provincial Nomination Program?

300

The total adult population available to the labour market at a specific time.

What is the labour force?

400

Resolution no. 49 wanted to do this.

What is freezing (or slowing) immigration into Canada until First Nation issues are addressed?

400
Immigrants need to know these 3 things in order to pass a citizenship test.

What are rights and responsibilities, history, geography, and government?

400

This section was violated when Mr Singh was not allowed to state his case.

What is Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?

400

This % of French speaking immigrants settle in Quebec.

What is 75%?

400

This relates to the structure of populations.

What is demographic?

500

This act stopped Chinese immigrants from entering Canada.

What is the 1923 Exclusion Act?

500

A permanent resident must live in Canada for at least this many days before applying for citizenship.

What are 1096 days?

500

Initially, the government wanted this type of person to immigrate to Canada.

What are British European White Single Males?

500

Currently, we are taking in refugees from this.

What is the Ukrainian/Russian war?

500

The practice of spying or using spies, something the revision of the Immigration and Refugee protection act adressed.

What is espionage?