This document summarizes Canada's immigration and refugee policies and trends. It provides an overview of the immigration and refugee processes in Canada, discusses recent immigration trends such as top source countries, details on permanent residency, barriers facing new immigrants, costs associated with resettling refugees, and factors influencing immigration policy changes such as skills gaps and economic conditions.

1. GOVERNMENT POLICY – IMMIGRATION – CANADA –
AUGUST 2017
BY: PAUL YOUNG, CPA, CGA
DATE: AUGUST 24, 2017

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3. AGENDA
 Immigration Process – Canada
 Refugee Process – Canada
 Immigration trends
 Permanent Residency / Countries
 Syrian Refugees
 Immigration Costs / Government
 Barriers impacting Immigrants
 Immigration Policies Changes - Factors

4. JUSTIN TRUDEAU / ILLEGAL ENTRY
Source - http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/myth-refugees-canada-trudeau-1.4257696 or
http://www.torontosun.com/2017/08/23/trudeau-walks-back-reckless-immigration-tweet

5. CANADA IMMIGRATION PROCESS
 The Canadian federal and provincial governments are constantly updating their programs to ensure that
Canadian immigration is successful, both for newcomers and for Canada. There are currently more than
60 programs available for immigration to Canada. For that reason, everyone's path to Canadian
immigration will be unique.
 For example, there are many different categories for professionals and workers under which you might
qualify for your Canada Immigration permanent resident visa, including the Federal and Quebec Skilled
Worker programs, the Provincial Nominee Programs, the Canadian Experience Class, the Quebec
Experience Class, and the Federal Self-Employed program. Canada also offers a number of Family Class
Sponsorship programs, whereby Canadian citizens and permanent residents may sponsor family
members and loved ones for Canadian immigration.
 Source - http://www.canadavisa.com/canadian-immigration-visas.html or
http://www.cic.gc.ca/englIsh/immigrate/index.asp

6. REFUGEE PROCESS / CANADA
 Some people are not eligible to claim refugee protection in Canada.
 Officers receiving your refugee claim will decide whether it is eligible for referral to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB), an
independent administrative tribunal that makes decisions on immigration and refugee matters. The IRB decides who is a Convention refugee or a
person in need of protection.
 Your refugee claim may not be eligible for referral to the IRB if:
 You have been recognized as a Convention refugee by another country to which you can return;
 You have already been granted protected person status in Canada;
 You arrived via the Canada-United States border;
 You are not admissible to Canada on security grounds, or because of criminal activity or human rights violations;
 You made a previous refugee claim that was found to be ineligible for referral to the IRB;
 You made a previous refugee claim that was rejected by the IRB; or
 You abandoned or withdrew a previous refugee claim.
Source: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/inside/apply-who.asp

7. IMMIGRATION TRENDS – CANADA
 Source: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2016006-eng.htm
The annual number of landed immigrants in Canada has fluctuated
considerably over the last 150 years. Some of these fluctuations can be
linked to immigration policy changes, others to Canada's economic situation
or world events connected with the movement of migrants and refugees.
For example, in the late 1800s, the number of immigrants admitted annually
to Canada varied between 6,300 and 133,000. Record numbers of
immigrants were admitted in the early 1900s when Canada was promoting
the settlement of Western Canada. The highest number ever recorded was
in 1913, when more than 400,000 immigrants arrived in the country.
However, the number of people entering the country dropped dramatically
during World War I, to fewer than 34,000 landed immigrants in 1915. The
lowest numbers of landed immigrants were recorded during the
Great Depression in the 1930s and during World War II. The return of peace
fostered economic recovery and an immigration boom in Canada.
Other record levels of immigration have been registered during political and
humanitarian crises, including in 1956 and 1957, when 37,500 Hungarian
refugees arrived in the country, and in the 1970s and 1980s, when a large
number of Ugandan, Chilean, Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian refugees
came to Canada.
Since the early 1990s, the number of landed immigrants has remained
relatively high, with an average of approximately 235,000 new immigrants
per year.

8. IMMIGRANTS BY COUNTRY
Source: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-630-x/11-630-
x2016006-eng.htm

9. DETAILS OF IMMIGRATIONS – PERMANENT RESIDENCE - CANADA
 http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2013/permanent/10.asp

10. BARRIERS FACING NEW IMMIGRATIONS
 Language skills
 Credentials not recognized
 Too many head to big cities like Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal
 Job Experience – (Canadian Experience)

11. SYRIA / REFUGEE
 More than 30,000 Syrians have arrived since November (excluding Quebec, which has its own settlement
program), and almost half of those are being privately sponsored to some extent.
 While government-assisted refugees are usually settled in cities and large towns, families who are
privately sponsored can end up anywhere. In more than 300 communities across the country, locals have
banded together to provide housing, English classes, driving lessons, a crash course in Canadian customs
(pot luck dinners, poutine) and, most important of all, friendship.
 Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/27/canadians-are-embracing-syrian-
refugees-why-cant-we

12. COST TO RESETTLED IMMIGRATIONS
 There is allot of things being said about the refugees. Yet the Liberals have not been clear with either with the
true costs or ethnic makeup of the refugees, why?
 Cost outlook for immigration citizen ship – Harper last budget showed 1.5B as compare to $1.7B for 2016-2017.
This means $200M increase to the budget
 Source: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/publications/rpp/2016-2017/#a1.3
 Source: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/pub/rpp-2015-2016.pdf
 Canada has re-settled over 27,000 – Syrians – no breakout by ethnic group
 Cost to taxpayers $1B
 Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/03/22/syrian-refugees-federal-budget-2016_n_9525346.html
 http://globalnews.ca/news/2594151/federal-budget-2016-syrian-refugees-could-cost-taxpayers-nearly-1-billion/
 Refugee costs – There are claims the monthly amount per refugee is approximately $2,500/month
 http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/fact-check-do-refugees-get-more-financial-help-than-canadian-pensioners-1.2670735

13. USA SAFE HARBOR AGREEMENT
Source - http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/laws-policy/menu-safethird.asp

14. IMMIGRATION POLICIES INFLUENCES
 Skills Gap - http://www.thewhig.com/2016/04/05/job-skills-gap-worsening-study-finds
 Slow Economy - http://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/gross-domestic-product-gdp-canada-july-2016
 Wage Growth - http://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/wages-and-employment-canada-july-2016
 Housing Costs - http://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/real-estate-trends-and-analysis-for-canada-
august-2016
 Youth Unemployment - http://debatepost.com/2016/09/14/canada-continues-importing-unskilled-
immigrant-while-unemployment-rate-climbs-to-7/
 Career Management/Innovation - http://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/2016-employment-outlook-
canada