What Are We Learning Today?

1
What Are We Learning Today?

• Assess, critically, how legislative processes
  attempt to address emerging issues of immigration.

2
What is the Immigration Refugee Protection Act?

• The ________ and ______ Protection Act dates from
  2002. It is the most recent of many laws Canada
  has had about immigration since it became a
  country in ____.
• It establishes categories of who can come to
  Canada from other countries to make permanent
  homes here. It lays out the objectives of those
  categories.

3
What are the Immigration Categories?

• Here are Canadas immigration categories as of
  2006 (Pg. 167)
• ________ ppl who are escaping persecution,
  torture, or cruel and unusual punishment.
• ________ spouses, partners, children, parents
  and grandparents of ppl living in Canada,
• _______ _________ skilled workers and
  businesspeople.
• ______ ppl accepted as immigrants for
  humanitarian or compassionate reasons.

4
What is the point system for accepting immigrants?

• The point system is part of the criteria Canada
  uses to decide who to accept as immigrants. It
  dates back from 1967.
• It applies only to economic immigrants (skilled
  workers and professionals). Refugees and
  family-class immigrants do not have to qualify
  under the point system.
• If you are not a refugee or a family-class
  immigrant, you MUST qualify under Canadas point
  system to enter Canada as an immigrant.
• Economic immigrants make up the biggest group of
  immigrants to Canada.

5
How does health factor into qualifying as an
immigrant?

• Every potential _________ immigrant to Canada
  must provide _____ that they are in good _____.
  These health _______ do not necessarily apply to
  ppl entering Canada as ______ or as ____-____
  immigrants. A person may be refused entry to
  Canada if
• Their health could put the health of _____ at
  risk for example, they have tuberculosis.
• They have a condition that could endanger ______
  ______ for example, a mental disorder.
• Their health could put an ______ _______ on
  Canadas health services for example, HIV/AIDS.

6
How might assessing the health, background, and
experience of immigrants connect to Canadians
right to security of the person under the
Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
7
How are Canadas immigration laws today different
than in the past?

• No one today is ______ from Canada because of
  their _______or country of origin. The point
  system, for example, evaluates people based on
  their skills and education.
• In the past, Canada _______immigrants of British
  ancestry and restricted immigration from Asian
  countries, such as China and India.
• (Pg. 173)

8
Why do you think Canadas immigration policies
have changed over time?
9
What is Canadas policy towards refugees?

• Here is some background on how Canadas position
  on refugees evolved (developed)
• Canada signed the U.N. Convention Relating to the
  Status of Refugees in 1951.
• During the 1950s and 1960s, Canada offered to
  shelter refugees in response to specific world
  crises.
• In 1976, Canada made _______ one of its
  immigration categories. The change meant that
  Canada accepted ______ ______, instead of ______
  by____.

10
Some Objectives of the Immigration Refugee
Protection Act, 2002

• Save lives and offer protection to ppl who are
  displaced and persecuted.
• Fulfill and affirm Canadas intl commitments to
  protect refugees.
• Grant fair consideration to ppl who claim to be
  persecuted, as an expression of Canadas
  humanitarian ideals.
• Offer refuge to ppl facing ________ because of
  ____, ______, _____ ______or membership in a ____
  _____, and to ppl who face _____, or cruel and
  unusual ________ or ________.

11
What issues might arise from accepting refugees
into Canada?
12
What Languages Do Immigrants to Canada Speak?

• Graph (Pg. 180).
• Why might the info. in this graph connect to
  issues raised by immigration for Canadas
  official language groups?

13
What is the Singh decision?

• Satnam Singh came to Canada from India seeking
  refugee status. Canadas govt rejected his case
  under the Immigration Act 1976.
• This act did not allow Mr. Singh to state his
  case in person or to appeal the govts decision
  on his case.
• The Supreme Court said this violated section 7 of
  the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
• The Supreme Court said everyone in the Charters
  means everyone every person physically present
  in Canada (they do not necessarily need to be a
  citizen).

14
Results of Singh Decision

• The results of Singh decision were
• Ppl claiming refugee status in Canada have the
  right to a hearing, which they attend in person.
• Canada established the Immigration and Refugee
  Board to provide quick and fair hearings.
• Canadas govt provides ppl seeking refugee
  status with the necessities of life while they
  wait for a hearing. (Pg. 182).

15
What impact do the rights of First Nations,
Métis, and Inuit peoples have on the way Canada
sets immigration, and other laws and policies?