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18 Mar 2016, 9:57 am by Alastair Clarke
Manitoba (Minister of Labour and Immigration), argued by my friend and colleague David Matas. [read post]
14 Mar 2016, 4:00 am by Administrator
Entertainment & Media Law Signal Meurrens on ImmigrationThe 2016 Liberal Immigration Numbers On March 8, 2016, John McCallum, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (“IRCC”) tabled the 2015 Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration (the “2015 IRCC Report”) It states that in 2016 Canada will welcome between 280,000 and 305,000 immigrants, with a target of 300,000. [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 9:16 am by Alastair Clarke
There are many sections of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), its Regulations and the Citizenship Act that simply need to be amended or repealed. [read post]
13 Jan 2016, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
Before this amendment IRPA allowed all inadmissible applicants to apply to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration for an exemption based on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. [read post]
6 Jan 2016, 4:00 am by Ian Mackenzie
Canada (Minister Citizenship and Immigration), 1999 CanLII 699 (SCC), [1999] 2 S.C.R. 817 at para. 67, “Children’s rights, and attention to their interests, are central humanitarian and compassionate values in Canadian society”. [read post]
20 Dec 2015, 4:00 am by Administrator
Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2015 SCC 58Aliens – International Law – Statutes Summary: Section 37(1)(b) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act rendered a permanent resident or a foreign national inadmissible to Canada on grounds of organized criminality, for engaging, in the context of transnational crime, in activities such as people smuggling. [read post]
13 Dec 2015, 4:00 am by Administrator
Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2015 SCC 61 (35990) Focus should be on the equitable underlying purpose of the humanitarian and compassionate relief application process, not seeing the guidelines as the only possible formulation for relief. [read post]
17 Nov 2015, 12:35 pm by Emelina Perez
[JURIST] Canada's Minister of Justice and Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship issued a joint statement [text] on Monday announcing that the government will withdraw an appeal that sought to require removal of the niqab for citizenship ceremonies. [read post]
3 Nov 2015, 1:51 pm by Nate Russell
Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2005 FC 261, a decision of the Federal Court which set the tone for dealing with the pariah: … the quality of the sources relied upon by the applicant, including an article by a Serbian priest, hardly an objective observer, and a downloaded extract from an on-line encyclopaedia, “Wikipedia,” that provided no references for its content, did not impress. [read post]
18 Oct 2015, 4:00 am by Administrator
Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2015 FCA 212Courts – Practice Summary: Ishaq was a Pakistani national who had been granted Canadian citizenship. [read post]
7 Oct 2015, 4:00 am by Administrator
Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2015 FC 156 [49] Indeed, the intention that it be mandatory for people to remove face coverings is also evident in public statements about the new directive when it was introduced. [read post]
4 Oct 2015, 4:00 am by Administrator
Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2015 FCA 194Aliens – Statutes Summary: Ishaq was a Pakistani national who had been granted Canadian citizenship. [read post]
21 Sep 2015, 3:01 am by Administrator
Chang’s Canada-US Immigration BlogOntario Immigrant Nominee Program Establishes Two Express Entry Streams As previously discussed, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (“CIC”) implemented its Express Entry system on January 1, 2015. [read post]
5 Mar 2015, 6:00 am by Administrator
Of course, the criminal law is preferable to immigration law, which risks indeterminate detention, judicially sanctioned use of secret evidence, and Canada’s shameful “loaded weapon” of the threat of deportation to torture under the Suresh v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) exception. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 3:00 am by Tim Banks @TM_Banks
The RCMP, CSIS, the Minister of Transport, the Minister of Citizenship and immigration, and the Canada Border Services Agency are all expressly permitted to collect and disclose information to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness and each other. [read post]
8 Feb 2015, 5:16 pm by Michel-Adrien
It does so by: eliminating the register of electors who temporarily reside outside Canada and incorporating the information found in it into the Register of Electors;requiring Canadian electors who reside abroad to apply for registration and a special ballot after the writs are issued at each federal election and stipulating that electors may only receive a special ballot for the address at which they last resided in Canada;requiring applicants for a special ballot who reside… [read post]
30 Dec 2014, 4:00 am by Alex Neve
That much was confirmed in the House of Commons by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration; though without explaining which “minorities” the government has in mind. [read post]
16 Dec 2014, 9:12 am by Colin Lachance
Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 1999 CanLII 699 (SCC), [1999] 2 SCR 817 (down from 5th place in 2013) Moore v. [read post]
16 Dec 2014, 4:00 am by Ken Chasse
Even funnier was the previous LSUC Treasurer’s published letter of February 7, 2014, to Ontario’s Minister of Finance, urging better funding for Legal Aid Ontario. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 4:00 am by Administrator
Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), [1999] 2 SCR 817, 1999 CanLII 699 (SCC) 1 L’Heureux-Dubé J. [read post]