1. Refugees and Immigration Copa America commercial

2. Immigration and Refugees Always open to immigration – though numbers and especially type of person has varied considerably Our birth rate is below replacement level, so we need immigration Main areas of discrimination have been race, economic class, political considerations Do we also have a responsibility as a wealthy under-populated country to allow others to settle here Recent practice by category and source country can be found herehere

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9. Refugees: numbered 13.9 million in 2014 A Convention refugee is someone with a well-founded fear of persecution based on: Race; Religion; Political opinion; Nationality; or Membership in a particular social group (such as, women or people of a particular sexual orientation).

10. A person in need of protection is someone who faces the following dangers if they returned to their home country or country where they normally live: A danger of torture; A risk to their life; or A risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.

11. Internally Displaced Persons 38.2 million people are classified as IDPs in 2014 More prominent and potentially more problematic than refugees No protection under international humanitarian law Subject to local authorities who may or may not meet international standards Signs of international response - principles promoted by UN in 1998

13. UNHCR report on displaced persons Migration flows by country interactive map Migration flows Europe 2016 interactive map

14. CBC report Refugees Admitted to Canada

16. Origins of the Syrian refugee issue in Canada 2013 – Harper government agrees to take in 13,000 refugees (primarily from Syria) by the end of 2014 1063 Syrian refugees are admitted by the end of 2014 2015 – Harper government agrees to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year; 60% of these are to be privately sponsored during 2015 3,700 private sponsorship applications are submitted for 8,200 refugees European refugee crisis hits Canada with another death on September 2nd, but this one is a 3 year old with a Canadian connection; details get lost but impact resonnates in the election

17. Syrian Refugee Initiative; 25,000 promise 25,080 — Total number of Syrian refugees who have reached Canada as of Saturday, Feb. 27; 8792 of these have been privately sponsored 96 — Number of flights organized by federal officials carrying refugees and landing in this country. Government scales back extra personnel who had been deployed to Lebanon and Jordan as government seeks to fold additional Syrian refugees back into global quotas 6,600 private sponsorship applications in the pipeline Government relents and sends some staff back to Lebanon and Jordan $678 million — Estimated maximum cost of the federal government’s Syrian resettlement program.

18. REFUGEES We will also work with private sponsors to accept even more. To do this, we will invest $250 million, including $100 million this fiscal year, to increase refugee processing, as well as sponsorship and settlement services capacity in Canada. fully restore the Interim Federal Health Program that provides limited and temporary health benefits to refugees and refugee claimants; establish an expert human rights panel to determine designated countries of origin, and provide a right to appeal refugee decisions for citizens from these countries; and appoint individuals with appropriate subject-matter expertise to Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board.

19. Other significant policy changes Restore health care coverage for refugees; this had been cut back by the Harper government Suspend requirement that refugees must cover costs of their medicals and their travel to Canada; still considering whether to make this change permanent Canadian Council for Refugees

20. Source country refers to the principal country of alleged persecution

21. CBC report Refugees Landed in Canada

22. CBC report

23. IRB Decisions “In 2015, some decision-makers rarely granted refugee status, including for legacy cases E. Robinson (6.5%, 31 decisions) and D. McBean (7.9%, 38 decisions), and in the new system G. Moreno (27.3%, 22 decisions) and D. Young (32.9%, 79 decisions). Others granted refugee status in most of the cases they heard, including for legacy cases M. Chevrier (70.0%, 50 decisions) and F. Ramsay (67.8%, 59 decisions) and in the new system J. Waters (98.5%, 65 decisions) and T. Shecter (93.0%, 43 decisions).” From Canadian Council for Refugees sitesite

24. Government announced new targets for 2016 reflecting a higher value than that set in recent years; 2016 levels2016 levels “The people in my department, they learned how to do processes concurrently rather than consecutively. They learned how to do things quicker. They learned how to drop certain parts of processes that weren’t really needed."

25. Immigration PolicyImmigration Policy new proposals a reduction in the amount of time permanent residents have to live in Canada in order to become eligible to apply for citizenship, from four out of six years to three out five years repeal the intent to reside provision and remove language proficiency requirements for certain applicants repeal a contentious provision that revoked citizenship from dual Canadian citizens convicted of terrorism, treason or espionage