Immigration

Question 0

What is the definition of labour force growth?

Answer 0

The growth of the labour force, or the number of people who can work

Question 1

What is an other class?

Answer 1

People accepted as immigrants for humanitarian or compassionate reasons

Question 2

What is the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act?

Answer 2

It establishes categories of who can come to Canada from other countries to make permanent homes here

Question 3

The point system only applies to what class?

Answer 3

It applies to only the economic immigrants (skilled workers and professional)

Question 4

What are the four classes of immigrants?

Answer 4

• refugees
• family class
• other
• economic

Question 4

What is a refugee class?

Answer 4

People who are escaping persecution, torture, or cruel and unusual punishment

Question 6

What is an economic immigrants?

Answer 6

Skilled workers and businesses people

Question 7

What health issues could prevent a person from being permitted to Canada?

Answer 7

• their health could put the health of Canadians at risk, ex. Tuberculosis
• they have a condition that could endanger public safety, ex. Mental disorder
• their health could out an “excessive demand” on Canada’s health services, ex. HIV/AIDS

Question 8

What are the objectives of the immigration and refugee protection act?

Answer 8

• pursue social, cultural and economic benefits for all Canadians
• respect the bilingual and multicultural character of Canada
• support development of minority official language communities
• share the benefits of immigration and support a prosperous economy across all regions of Canada
• reunite families

Question 10

What is the point system for accepting immigrants?

Answer 10

It’s part of the criteria Canada uses to decide who to accept as immigrants

Question 10

What should a person do if you are not part of the refugee or a family class immigrant?

Answer 10

They must qualify under Canada point’s system to enter Canada as an immigrant

Question 11

What is a family class?

Answer 11

Spouses, partners, children, parents of people living in Canada

Question 12

What economic factors influence immigration policies in Canada?

Answer 12

• labour force growth
• filling labour shortages
• more taxes payers

Question 13

What social and political factors influence immigration policies in Canada?

Answer 13

• increase cultural diversity
• promotes bilingualism
• reunite families
• protect refugees
• supporting French language communities

Question 14

What health and security factors influence immigration policies in Canada?

Answer 14

• the health and safety of Canadians must be protected
• not contagious
• not a security risk

Question 15

What is Canada approach to immigration in the past and present?

Answer 15

• no one today is excluded from Canada because of their race, or country origin
• in the past, Canada favoured immigrants of British ancestry and restricted immigration from Asian countries

Question 16

What is the definition of demographic?

Answer 16

To do with the characteristics of population

Question 17

What is the provincial nomination program?

Answer 17

Provinces can “nominate” a percentage of the immigrants Canada selects each year

Question 18

What does the provincial nomination program allows provinces to do?

Answer 18

The program allows some provinces to set up their own immigration offices in foreign countries

Question 19

What is Canada-Quebec accord?

Answer 19

• It’s a specific agreement with Quebec

- Quebec can nominate the percentage of immigrants to Canada that corresponds to its population within Canada

Question 20

What are the top five first languages of immigrants?

Answer 20

• English
• Arabic
• Mandarin
• Punjabi
• Spanish

Question 21

Canada-Quebec Accord allows Quebec to?

Answer 21

It allows Quebec to require immigrants who settle in Quebec to send their children to French language schools

Question 22

What is immigration?

Answer 22

It’s the process of people establishing homes, often citizenship, in a country that is not their native country

Question 23

How are provincial governments able to influence and implement immigration policies?

Answer 23

Provinces can control some aspects of immigration, in an attempt to make sure immigration fits and meets their needs

Question 24

What is the difference between immigration law and immigration policy?

Answer 24

• immigration law says who is allowed into Canada

- immigration policy set the procedures for evaluating immigrants and says how many people are allowed into Canada

Question 25

What is persecution?

Answer 25

hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs.

Question 26

How is the implementation of immigration policies in Quebec an attempt to strengthen the French language in North America?

Answer 26

• the Canada-Quebec Accord seeks immigrants whose first language is French
• it allows Quebec to require immigrants who settle in Quebec to send their children to French language schools

Question 27

Resolution number 49

Answer 27

• it reflects the assembly of First Nations concern that the federal gov. Is not fulfilling it’s obligations to First Nations people
• including its obligation to consult First Nations and to allocate resources with the right and interests of First Nations in mind