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Built in 1977 as a medium-sized, planned consolidation project [2] to service residents of the former Metropolitan Toronto districts of North York and Etobicoke, the building houses offices for passport services, Service Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, and Canadian Forces ...
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC; French: Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada) [NB 1] is the department of the Government of Canada with responsibility for matters dealing with immigration to Canada, refugees, and Canadian citizenship. The department was established in 1994 following a reorganization.
In 2007, the Ministry of Citizenship of Immigration was accused of using immigrant aid money as a slush fund by directing it to groups with strong Liberal ties. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Ontario Auditor General probed $32 million of spending over a 2-year period and found no direct evidence of money flowing due to political ties, but that political ties ...
TORONTO (Reuters) -Canada will sharply lower the number of immigrants it allows into the country for the first time in years, marking a notable shift in policy for the government as it tries to ...
Office Successor New position: Minister of International Trade 2016-2018 Jim Wilson: Michael Coteau: Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and International Trade 2014–2016 Laura Albanese: Ontario provincial government of Dalton McGuinty: Cabinet posts (4) Predecessor Office Successor Charles Sousa: Minister of Citizenship and Immigration 2012 ...
Canada has been under pressure to beef up its border with the U.S. since Trump threatened Canada and Mexico with sweeping 25% tariffs if they did not stem the movement of migrants and drugs into ...
Pursuant to the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants Act (S.C. 2019, c. 29, s. 292) the College Act, the opening of the College was established by a Ministerial Order, which approved the previous regulator, the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council ICCRC, to continue as the College. The College officially opened on ...
The Canadian government, meanwhile, was interested in bolstering the burgeoning agriculture industry in western Canada, and saw this as an opportunity to attract American immigrants to Canada. The Canadian government set up immigration offices throughout the United States, and advertised vacant farmland in American newspapers and magazines ...