Immigration Election Issues

• Which immigration promises will a Liberal minority government likely keep?

  Some pledges have been criticized by experts as “half baked” or “doomed to failure,” while others have been embraced as possible fixes to the growing gap in some areas of the labour market.

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  Oct 22, 2019
  
• Scheer would stop CBSA cancelling arrest warrants for anyone facing deportation: Conservative Party

  'Cancelling warrants for those ordered deported is unacceptable and a Conservative government will fix this broken process,' said a Conservative spokesperson.

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  Oct 18, 2019
  
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• Canada’s border agency ‘cancels’ arrest warrants for people it wants to deport but cannot find

  “In limited circumstances, an immigration warrant may be cancelled even if it cannot be confirmed that an individual has left Canada,” according to a CBSA spokesperson.

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  Oct 18, 2019
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• Trudeau affirms Quebec’s right to ‘test’ new immigrants but won’t comment on the ‘values’ part

  Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said it is Quebec's right to decide if it will implement a test for new immigrants. He said there will be no such test for Canadian citizenship.

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  Oct 11, 2019
• Elizabeth May accuses Justin Trudeau of stripping human rights from refugees

  Trudeau said in the debate that May’s claim that new federal rules were denying refugees’ human rights was “absolutely false.”

  Politics

  Oct 10, 2019
• Experts say Scheer’s plan to close border loophole ‘doomed to failure’

  Experts are questioning whether Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer can successfully close the border loophole without full co-operation from the U.S.

  Politics

  Oct 9, 2019
• Bernier challenged over ‘extreme multiculturalism’ tweet during leaders’ debate

  The People's Party of Canada leader was challenged over his use of the words “ghettos” and “tribes” in describing new immigrants to Canada.

  Canada

  Oct 7, 2019
• Green Party pledges to scrap Temporary Foreign Worker Program — is that a good idea?

  Elizabeth May says she would scrap the Temporary Foreign Worker Program if elected. The move would have big implications for workers and Canada's economy, experts say.

  Canada

  Sep 27, 2019