grade 9 - immigration

• What is immigration?

  The process of people establishing homes and often citizenship,in a country that is not their native country.
• Define immigrant?

  A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
• Define immigrate?

  Come to live permanently in a foreign country
• Define emigrate?

  Leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.
• Demographic: The characteristics of a population, such as age, sex, and ethnicity.
• What is Labour Force Growth?

  The growth of the "labour force" or the number of people who can work.
• Refugee: a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
• Accord: formal agreement.
• The three obligations you must make when you become a Canadian citizen are?

  1. Be faithful to the monarch
  2. Observe the laws of Canada
  3. Fulfil your duties as a citizen
• Objectives of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (2002) ?

  1. Pursue social, cultural and economic benefits for all Canadians
  2. Respect the bilingual and multicultural character of Canada
  3. Support the development of minority official language communities in Canada
  4. Share the benefits of immigration and support a prosperous economy across all regions of Canada.
  5. Reunite families in Canada
  6. Promote the successful integration of immigrants into Canadian society, recognizing that integration involves mutual obligations for new immigrants and Canadian society
• Two benefits to immigration?

  1. Develop our economy, society and our culture
  2. Immigration helps with our population growth. (labour forced growth)
• The point system for accepting immigrants began in 1967. It applies only to economic immigrants. It does not apply to refugees or family class. Economic immigrants make up the biggest group of immigrants to Canada.
• Family class immigrants make up 28% of Canada's immigrants. Spouses, partners, children, parents and grandparents of people living in Canada classify as family class immigrants.
• Refugees make up 13% of Canada's immigrants. Refugee's are people escaping torture, prosecution, or cruel and unusual punishment.
• Economic immigrants make up 55% of Canada's immigrants. Economic immigrants are skilled workers and business people.
• Other immigrants make up 4% of Canada's immigrants. People accepted for humanitarian or compassionate reasons.
• Potential Economic Immigrants have to prove they are in good health because?

  • Their health could put the health of Canadians at risk — for example, they have tuberculosis.
  • They have a condition that could endanger public safety — for example, a mental disorder.
  • Their health could put an “excessive demand” on Canada’s health services — for example, HIV/AIDS.
• Objectives for Canada’s refugee program?

  • Save lives and offer protection to people who are displaced and persecuted.
  • Fulfil and affirm Canada’s international commitments to protect refugees.
  • Grant fair consideration to people who claim to be persecuted, as an expression of Canada’s humanitarian ideals.
  • Offer refuge to people facing persecution because of race, religion, political opinion or membership in a social group, and to people who face torture, or cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.
• Issues that result in people applying as an immigrant to Canada?


  National disasters - floods & earthquakes, population pressures, politics, war and poverty.
• Top Five First Languages of Immigrants in Canada?

  1. Mandarin
  2. English
  3. Arabic
  4. Punjabi
  5. Spanish
• What percentage of immigrants to Canada speak?

  English 53%

  Both French and English 9%

  French 5%

  Neither 33%
• What were the results after Satnam Singh's case?

  • People claiming refugee status in Canada have the right to a hearing, which they attend in person.
  • Canada established the Immigration and Refugee Board to provide quick and fair hearings.
  • Canada’s government provides people seeking refugee status with the necessities of life while they wait for a hearing.
• Top Three Places for Immigrants to settle in Canada?

  Toronto 39%

  Montreal 15%

  Vancouver 14%
• Provincial Nomination Program : A program that allows a province to nominate a specific number of immigrants they need. (the government CANNOT force immigrants to live or work in certain places)
• The Top Worker Shortages in Alberta in 2006 were?

  Construction - 98%

  Transportation - 91%

  Manufacturing - 89%
• When you become a Canadian citizen you gain the right to?

  Vote
• Provinces develop policies to attract and retain immigrants.
• Alberta gets the most economic immigrants.
• The Canada-Quebec Accord allows Quebec to have unique immigration standards and practices. Quebec is able to refuse immigrants they feel will undermine the strength of French society and culture.
• What are two ways that Canada's Immigration Laws today are different than the pasted?

  • No one today is excluded from Canada because of their race or country of origin. The point system, for example, evaluates people based on their skills and education.
  • In the past, Canada favoured immigrants of British ancestry and restricted immigration from Asian countries, such as China and India.
• Drawbacks to immigration: hard to get citizenship, learn new language, hard to fit in, different economy and little relatives.
• Reasons to immigrate to Canada?

  Opportunities,living conditions, education, healthcare and safety.
• Aboriginal leaders have spoke about issues regarding immigration and how jobs that could be filled by their people are being filled by immigrants. They believe barriers were set up to prevent Aboriginal people access to education and training.
• Quebec insists that immigrants who choose to be french-speaking must send their children to French school or enroll them in French programs.
• All people PHYSICALLY in Canada have access to the Charter and the rights and freedoms within it.
• Canada may achieve a stronger economy from more workers.
• Immigration helps solidify this part of Canada's identity. The perception of Canada on a world stage as a welcoming country with a thriving economy is also good for Canada's role in world politics and economics.
• Canada accepts the most type of economic immigrants because they boost economics.
• By accepting refugees Canada is making a political statement that we do not condone such persecution and affirm Canada's commitment to human rights.
• Refugee's and family class immigrants can not be denied immigrations due to health concerns.