POLS 1400 Lecture 12: Immigration and Multiculturalism (Part Two)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1400
• Professor: Nanita Mohan

Document Summary

Bill c-86: new amendments for refugees, made the sponsorship process for refugees easier and quicker; better streamlining of refugees overall, gave more power to immigration officers to make decisions for refugees. Two of the 9/11 terrorists entered the us through canada since before 2002, you only needed a driver"s licence to cross the us-canada border. Strengthening canadian citizenship act (2014) the focus of this act was on canadian citizenship rather than immigration policies (implemented by chris alexander, the minister of citizenship and immigration at the time) There are four categories of refugees in canada (described below) The in-canada asylum program for people trying to gain refugee status while they"re in. Canada (if their visa expires for example: this program works to provide protection for these refugees if they fear persecution in their home country. Private sponsors private citizens who willingly sponsor refugees that are either inside of.