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Why we are doing it:
To serve Canadians, permanent residents and potential immigrants faster
and more effectively.
To enable the program to move toward immigration levels of one percent of
the population.
Expanding the Family Class
What we are doing:
Broadening the definition of "dependent child" by increasing the age from
under 19 to under 22.
Opening up adoption provisions in keeping with the principle of the best
interests of the child.
Modernizing the definition of "family" to include common-law and same-sex
partners.
Why we are doing it:
To reflect the high value Canadians place on the family.
To maintain and enhance the family class as an important component of the
overall program.
To reflect the changing nature of social relationships in Canada.
Facilitating Family Reunification
What we are doing:
Creating an in-Canada landing class for sponsored spouses and partners for
both immigrants and refugees.
Exempting sponsored spouses, partners and dependent children from the
admission bar with regard to excessive demand on health or social services.
Reducing the age at which Canadian citizens and permanent residents are
eligible to sponsor from 19 to 18.
Including "parent" in the definition of family class within the Act.
Reducing the length of the sponsorship requirement from 10 years to 3
years for spouses and common-law opposite- and same-sex partners.
Why we are doing it:
To make it easier for families to be reunited as soon as possible.
Incorporating the Best Interests of the Child
What we are doing:
Incorporating the principle of the best interests of the child in appropriate
provisions of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.
Why we are doing it:
To uphold our international commitments as a signatory to three United
Nations conventions on the rights of the child.
To reflect the high value Canadians place on the well-being of children.
Modernizing the Selection System: Skilled Workers
What we are doing:
Moving away from an occupation-based model to one focused on flexible
and transferable skills.
Assigning more weight to education.
Increasing the relative weight of having knowledge of an official language but
ensuring that language is not a bar to admission.
Creating an "in-Canada landing class" for temporary workers (including
recent graduates from Canadian schools) who have a permanent job offer
and who have been working in Canada.
Why we are doing it:
To attract and keep the highly skilled, adaptable immigrants that Canada
needs to succeed and prosper in the future.
Expanding the Temporary Worker Program
What we are doing:
Facilitating the entry of temporary workers through a more serviceoriented
approach.
Pursuing agreements with individual sectors or firms to identify and meet
short-term labour market needs, while respecting the terms of applicable
federal-provincial agreements.
Why we are doing it:
To allow the immediate needs of employers to be met faster.
To expand our access to the global labour market.
To attract people who are skilled and on the move and to encourage them to
make Canada their destination of choice.
Strengthening Sponsorship Obligations
What we are doing:
People in default of court-ordered spousal or child support payments will not
be allowed to sponsor.
People convicted of a crime related to domestic abuse will not be able to
sponsor unless a pardon has been granted or rehabilitation has been
demonstrated.
New legislative provisions will improve the ability of the federal government to
recover the costs of social assistance in cases of sponsorship default.
People receiving social assistance, except for reasons of disability, will not
be able to sponsor.
Why we are doing it:
To strengthen the integrity of the sponsorship program.
Streamlining Appeals
What we are doing:
Introducing a new leave requirement for people appealing visa officer
decisions from overseas.
Developing an alternative dispute resolution mechanism for overseas
decisions.
Limiting inland humanitarian and compassionate applications to one per
year.
Why we are doing it:
To provide a screening mechanism for applications to the Federal Court for
review of overseas decisions. The leave provision currently exists for inland
applications only.
To provide an effective, alternative means of reviewing and solving disputes
regarding overseas decisions.
To ensure a fast and fair inland system for considering applications on
humanitarian and compassionate grounds.
Business Immigration
What we are doing:
Establishing objective criteria to assess business experience for both the
investor and entrepreneur programs.
Creating a new net worth requirement for entrepreneurs.