Canada's plan to increase immigration levels and become a country of 100 million people is causing controversy.
Significant increases in residents during a housing shortage suggest that federal policy is influenced by ideology rather than past pragmatic approaches.
The 100-million project has been debated for over a decade and was originally proposed as a geopolitical project with multiple benefits, but was later transformed by the Century Initiative, an influential group focused on economic liberalization.
However, Quebec and Indigenous peoples were not initially included in the Century Initiative's deliberations, and their concerns about demographic submersion were ignored.
This approach emphasized certain economic benefits while excluding other perspectives.
#immigration_Levels, #Century_Initiative, #Immigration_To_Canada
June 28, 2023
Discussions are going around if Canada should provide medical care for birth tourists - pregnant women who come to Canada solely to give birth to their babies and obtain Canadian citizenship for them.
Preterm and multiple births experts argue that Canadian hospitals and doctors should have "absolutely zero tolerance" for birth tourism as this phenomenon is rising again after COVID travel restrictions were lifted.
Hospitals end up with huge unpaid bills when planned low-risk births go wrong, and babies must spend weeks in intensive care.
In a study conducted in Calgary, almost $700,000 was owed to Alberta Health Services over 16 months.
In addition, birth tourists are at risk of being exploited by unscrupulous brokers and agencies that charge high fees upfront for birth tourism packages, which include the arrangement of tourist visas, flights, "maternity" or "baby hotels," as well as pre-and post-partum care.
#Birth_tourism, #tourism, #Canadian_Citizenship
June 28, 2023
On June 16, 2023, the Government of Canada announced new instructions for assessing new and pending applications under the Home Child Care Provider and Home Support Worker pilots.
On April 30, 2023, the Government amended the Ministerial Instructions, reducing the work experience requirement from 24 to 12 months, clarifying that employers on the job offer must not be businesses, and streamlining the application process for gaining experience category (Category A).
Currently, work authorized under the Immigration and Refugees Protection Regulations will be counted as work experience.
#Caregivers, #Home_Child_Care_Providers, #Home_Support_Workers
June 19, 2023
On June 14, 2023, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced the removal of the public policy allowing foreign nationals to apply for permanent residence with previous biometrics.
As a result, all permanent residence applicants applying on or after June 14, 2023, are required to submit biometrics.
The updated instructions have affected general processing measures implemented during the COVID-19. All applicants now have 30 days from the Biometric Instruction Letter (BIL) date to provide their biometrics as was the procedure in the pre-pandemic time. #IRCC, #biometrics, #PR, #BIL, #GCMS
June 18, 2023
