immigration Canada- unit 5

Question 0

Immigration

Answer 0

the process of people establishing homes and often citizenship in a country that is not their native country
Economic immigrants make up the biggest group of immigrants to Canada

Question 1

Accord

Answer 1

Formal agreement

Question 2

Demographic

Answer 2

To do with the characteristics if populations

Question 3

Labor force growth

Answer 3

The growth if the “labour force” or the number of people who can work
Ensures economic growth
Without immigration the labour force will shrink
Some time between 2011 and 2016 the number of Canadians entering the labour force will equal the number of people retiring

Question 4

Refugee

Answer 4

A person who seeks refuge in another country because of danger or persecution in their home country

Question 5

Point system

Answer 5

Dates from 1967
Applies to only economic immigrants
Criteria Canada uses to accept different immigrants
Refugees and family class immigrants do not have to qualify under the point system, if not they have to qualify in order to enter Canada as an immigrant
You need 67 points to qualify
Based on the immigrants background and experience

Question 6

What is the Immigration and refugee protection act?

Answer 6

Dates from 2002
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
Categories: refugees, family class, other, economic immigrants

Question 7

What are the objectives if the immigration and refugee protection act

Answer 7

Pursue social, cultural and economic benefits for all Canadians
Respect the bilingual and multicultural character of Canada
Support the development of minority official language communities in Canada
Share the benefits if immigration and to support economy in all regions of Canada
Reunite families in Canada
Respect and promote into gratin that involves mutual obligations for new immigrants in the Canadian society
Save lives and offer protection to people who are displaced and persecuted

Question 8

Provincial nominee program

Answer 8

Under the provincial nomination program, provinces can “nominate” a percentage of the immigrants Canada selects each year
Program allows some provinces to set up their own immigration offices in foreign countries
Governments in Canada can’t require immigrants to settle in particular places or work in particular jobs
This program increases the likelihood that immigrants will settle in the provinces whose labour needs match their skills

Question 9

What workers does Alberta need?

Answer 9

There are shortages in 
Construction 
Transportation
Manufacturing 
Resource development
Retail 
Ect.... Alberta's total percent of the report in worker shortages is %84

Question 10

Canada Quebec accord

Answer 10

Is a specific agreement with Quebec … Under the accord Quebec can nominate the percentage of immigrants to Canada that corresponds to its population within Canada
Allows Quebec to require immigrants who stele in Quebec to send their children to French- language schools
Under this accord Quebec seeks immigrants whose first language is French

Question 11

Where do most if the immigrants immigrate to in Canada?

Answer 11

50% Ontario 
Too three locations are:
Toronto- %39
Montreal- %15
Vancouver- %14

Question 12

Economic immigrants

Answer 12

Skilled workers or professionals who have immigrated

Question 13

Family class immigrant

Answer 13

Immigrants that have traveled with spouses, partners, children, parents and grandparents of people who live in Canada

Question 14

What is the difference between an immigration law and policy?

Answer 14

Law: dis rives principles or conditions that must be followed
Policy: describes objectives if the government, within the law
Ex. Immigration
Law: says who is allowed into Canada
Policy: sets the procedures for evaluating immigrants and says how many people are allowed into Canada from year to year

Question 15

To emigrate into Canada you need to:

Answer 15

Complete a formal application and submit it to citizenship and immigration Canada
Pay an application fee
Pass a medical exam that shows you have no illness that could endanger other Canadians
Pass a security check that shows you have no criminal record and are not a security risk to Canada

Question 16

How does health factor into qualifying as an immigrant

Answer 16

Is refused enters if the immigrants…
Health could put the health of Canadians at risk ex. Tuberculosis
They have a condition that could endanger the public safety ex. Mental disorder
Health could put an excessive demand in Canada’s health services ex. HIV/ AIDS
None of these health requirements apply to people entering Canada as refugees or as family class immigrants

Question 17

How are Canada’s immigration laws today different than in the past?

Answer 17

No one today is excluded from Canada because if their race or country of origin
In the past Canada favoured immigrants if British ancestry and restricted immigration from Asian countries such as china and India

Question 18

Immigration for Indians

Answer 18

They arrived in Vancouver in a Japanese ship, at the time Canada’s government allowed people from USIA to enter Canada only if they sailed directly from India without stopping anywhere
Since no shipping line offered this service, Canada’s policy restricted immigrants from India

Question 19

Immigration for Chinese

Answer 19

Canada discouraged immigration from china by requiring every Chinese immigrant to oat a fixed fee called a head tax. This was one of the several laws that restricted immigrants from Asia

Question 20

What is Canada’s policy towards refugees?

Answer 20

Refugees are one of the categories of immigrants established under the immigration and refugee protection act
Canada signed the u.n convention relating it the status if refugees in 1951
During the past Canada offered to shelter refugees in response to specific world crises
In 1976 Canada made refugees one of its immigration categories… This meant that Canada accepted refugees steadily instead if crisis by crisis.

Question 21

How has the immigration policy changed in response to security concerns?

Answer 21

No person shall be granted admission if…
Have engaged in an act of subversion against the democratic government
Engaging in investigation in force if any government
Engaged in terrorism
Being a danger to the security in Canada
Being a member if a group that will engage in any of these things

Question 22

Top five first languages of immigrants

Answer 22

Mandarin
English
Arabic
Punjabi
Spanish

Question 23

What is the Singh decision?

Answer 23

In Canada, April the fourth is known as refugee rights day following a 1985 Supreme Court decision known as the Singh decision
Satnam Singh came to Canada drum indus seeking refugee status. Canada’s government rejected his case under the immigration act of 1976
The result: people 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 the quick and fair hearings
Canada’s government provides the people seeking refugee status with the necessities if life while they wait for a hearing

Question 24

Canada wanted immigrants to settle into the west and build railways… Which countries did they want immigrant from?

Answer 24

In the late 1800s Canada wanted immigrants from the u.s and Britain and many other parts if Europe it settle into the west and build railways
They didn’t want immigrants from French-speaking populations such as Belgium

Question 25

3 reasons why the government today promotes immigration

Answer 25

Development or our economy, society and culture