People often believe that Canadian immigration laws are more lax than those of our southern neighbour, the United States, but in fact they are not.  People are surprised that not only do we have similar grounds of inadmissibility but that these grounds can lead to refusals. For instance, it appears that in the United States…

In the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulation [IRPR], Parliament created Division 2 – Application for Work Permit to include a way for Canadian employers to be able to fulfill their labour needs when they are unable to do so by relying exclusively on the pool of labour available in Canada. One of the principal ways…