Immigration
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October 22, 2025
Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan to host Access to Justice Week 2025
Three provinces are holding the 10th annual National Access to Justice Week later this month. Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan are listed as hosing the event, which runs this year from Oct. 27 to 31 and is being quarterbacked by the Action Group on Access to Justice (TAG).
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October 22, 2025
CFIB challenges ‘myths’ around Temporary Foreign Worker Program, makes recommendations
A new report released by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) discusses what it calls “five of the most persistent myths” about the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), “separating evidence and program rules from perception and political rhetoric.” In a press release, issued Oct. 22, the CFIB made six recommendations to policymakers.
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October 17, 2025
PM announces new border security measures, legislation amendment
Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced new measures from Budget 2025 to enhance security at the border, including hiring more Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers, increasing the CBSA’s stipend for the first time in 20 years and amending the Public Service Superannuation Act.
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October 17, 2025
Beware of immigration fraud and misrepresentation
Canadian immigration is increasingly being targeted with fraudulent schemes, misrepresentation, identity theft, and passport-related crimes. Applicants and unscrupulous consultants exploit weaknesses in the system by using forged documents, stolen identities, sham marriages and misleading claims to obtain immigration status.
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October 16, 2025
Carney says Liberals’ impending crime bill will propose more bail reverse onuses & stiffer sentences
Next week Ottawa will propose Criminal Code reforms — including new reverse onuses for bail, a ban on conditional sentences for a number of sexual offences, and stiffer sentences for repeat convictions for auto-theft, organized crime and home invasion, says Prime Minister Mark Carney, who added that his government is also poised to unveil new border security measures on Oct. 17.
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October 14, 2025
The birthright citizenship debate: Will my child be a U.S. citizen?
The relevant words that will determine the answer to this question are “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” These words appear in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and are the qualifying phrase relating to those who can claim U.S. citizenship based on birth in the U.S.
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October 09, 2025
New federal Bill C-12 features immigration reforms carved out from contentious ‘strong borders’ bill
The federal government has removed about half of its controversial 140-page omnibus “strong borders” bill (C-2) and inserted excised measures into a newly introduced 70-page “immigration and borders” bill (C-12), which proposes many of the same immigration changes that critics had called on Ottawa to scrap.
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October 08, 2025
Fraser calls provinces’ demand to scrap Ottawa’s SCC arguments on notwithstanding clause ‘untenable’
Attorney General of Canada Sean Fraser has pushed back against the demands of five premiers that Ottawa should drop its novel arguments at the Supreme Court that there are substantive constraints on governments’ powers to invoke the Charter’s s. 33 “notwithstanding” clause — arguments that those five provinces contend “represent a complete disavowal of the constitutional bargain that brought the Charter into being” in 1982.
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October 08, 2025
Importance of sufficient funds for study permit applications in Canada
In the case of Mohammadi v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2024 FC 598, an 18-year-old Iranian national who wished to complete Grade 12 at a private high school in Ontario submitted a study permit application in which he showed parental funds of $168,000 to cover $32,500 in costs for tuition and room and board.
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October 07, 2025
Feds aim to downsize Temporary Foreign Worker Program, noting increased penalties
The federal government has announced measures to reduce reliance on the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program, including a 50 per cent overall reduction in applications to the program and 70 per cent in the low-wage stream. This was done, the statement read, “in context of the tightening labour market in September 2024.”