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Immigration Act
Established immigration offices.
Also addressed the safety of immigrants on
board ships and established the following
categories for those barred entry to Canada :
« idiotic, deaf or dumb, blind or infirm »,
for whom ship captains could be fined.
Immigration agents were authorized to send
these individuals back to their port of departure.Naturalization Act
After living in Canada for three years,
an immigrant could submit an
application to a court and receive a certificate
of naturalization, if he or she were deemed to
be of good character. When a man was naturalized
as a British subject in Canada, his wife and children
automatically received the same status.Chinese Immigration Act
Chinese immigrants needed to pay
a sum of money called a head tax,
before they would enter the country.
This was done to discourage immigrants
from Asia.Immigration Act
extended eligibility to immigrants with mental illness,
epilepsy or physical disability if they belonged to an
immigrant family capable of providing sufficient support.Immigration Act
Protected immigrants from
deportation.Naturalization Act
To obtain a certificate of naturalization, residents
were now required to live in Canada for five years
before submitting an application. Candidates were
judged on their moral character and had to have
adequate knowledge of English or French.Chinese Immigration Act
Barred entry to persons identified as Chinese.
Chinese immigrants already in Canada were
required to register and were authorized to
travel to and from China, but not to bring in
family members.Immigration Act
The federal cabinet was authorized to prohibit
immigrants on the basis of nationality, ethnicity,
occupation, peculiar customs, inability to adapt
to the climate and probable inability to become
assimilated.Immigration Act
The Act organized immigration according to annual plansImmigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA)
This Act was made to sort out who can come to
Canada to live and who can't. Still continues to
be the centerpiece of immigration legislation in Canada.Chinese Head Tax
The head tax went from $50 to $100Chinese Head Tax
The head tax went from $100 to $500Establishment of The Department of Immigration and ColonizationKomagata Maru Incident
The Canadian government wouldn't allow
immigrants from India unless they came
from India to Canada with no stops, which
at the time, was impossible because no
shipping line offered that service. The
Japanese ship called the Komagata Maru
was forced to return, after 2 months, to
harbour.Naturalization Act
Authorized immigrant wives to request
naturalization independently.Order-in-council
Restricted immigration to agriculturalists
with financial resources, wives and children
of Canadian residents and British subjects
and American citizens with sufficient means to
provide for their own needs until they found
employment.Refugees were added as an immigration categoryThe Singh Decision
Satnam Singh and his appeal
as a refugee was denied under
the Immigration Act of 1976 by
the government of Canada. The
Supreme Court decided that this
went against the Charter of Rights
and Freedoms. Satnam Singh had the
right to appeal his case in person just like
every other Canadian.
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