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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.

Why we are doing it:

To strengthen the integrity of the business immigration program.

Objective Criteria for Permanent Residence

What we are doing:

Introducing a clear physical residency requirement. To retain permanent

residence status, a person must be physically present in Canada for a

cumulative period of 2 years for every 5 working years. People who spend

time overseas for specific reasons (to accompany a Canadian citizen, to

work for a Canadian company, or for humanitarian reasons) will retain their

status.

Developing a fraud-resistant permanent resident card.

Ensuring an oral appeal to the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) for all

loss of status cases.

Ensuring that permanent residents without a valid card have the right to

enter if they have been outside Canada for less than one year.

Why we are doing it:

To implement a clear objective standard that is easier to administer.

To replace a document that is easy to forge with one that has

state-of-the-art security features.

And Refugees

Strengthening Refugee Protection: Overseas Resettlement

What we are doing:

Amending the criteria for "ability to establish in Canada" to include social as

well as economic factors.

Pursuing agreements with NGOs to locate, identify, refer and pre-screen

refugee applications in areas where refugees are most in need of protection.

Ensuring that people in urgent need of protection are brought to Canada

within days.

Why we are doing it:

To ensure that the need for protection is the overriding objective in

resettlement from abroad.

To focus existing resources on areas where refugees are most in need of

protection.

Facilitating Family Reunification of Refugees

What we are doing:

Processing overseas families as a unit, including extended family members

of refugees whenever possible.

Allowing dependants of refugees, selected inland or abroad, to be

processed as part of the same application for a period of one year after a

refugee has acquired permanent resident status.

Exempting refugees, their spouses, partners and dependants from the

admission bar with regard to excessive demand on health or social services.

Why we are doing it:

To facilitate the reunification of refugees with their family members as soon

as reasonably practicable.

Faster and Fair Refugee Processing Inland

What we are doing:

Referral to the IRB to be made within three working days.

Consolidating protection decisions at the IRB to examine all risk grounds at

a single hearing. Grounds will include the Geneva Convention, the

Convention against Torture, and the risk of cruel or unusual treatment or

punishment.

The use of single-member panels as the norm, supported by the

establishment of a paper appeal on merit.

Reducing the waiting period from 5 to 3 years for the landing in Canada of

undocumented refugees who are unable to obtain documents from their