FEDERAL POLICY

Canada imposes visa on Mexico Ottawa, July 13, 2009 — Beginning 12:01 a.m. EDT on July 14, 2009, Mexican nationals will require a visa to travel to Canada, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney announced today.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/releases/2009/2009-07-13.asp

The new Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) will become law on June 28, 2002
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/about/laws-policy/index.asp

Citizens of the following countries require a Temporary Resident Visa to visit or transit Canada
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/visas.asp

Expiry date on Canadian citizenship
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/facts/index.asp
Since 1977, the law requires that some Canadians born abroad (only those who are part of the second and subsequent generations born outside of Canada) take action prior to their 28th birthday to confirm their Canadian citizenship. If they do not, under section 8 of the Citizenship Act, they automatically cease to be citizens.

Canada Border Services Agency
http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/security-securite/safety-surete-eng.html
Managing access to Canada:
Intelligence and Risk Management
Advance Information Screening
Technology and Admissibility
Arrests and Detentions
Immigration Violations
Security Certificates

FEDERAL-PROVINCIAL AGREEMENTS

Canada and Alberta sign agreements to attract more skilled immigrants and foreign students
http://www.gov.ab.ca/acn/200310/15321.html
October 16, 2003.

Canada and Ontario sign historic immigration agreement
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/releases/2005/index.asp
Under the terms of the agreement, the Government of Canada will invest an additional $920 million over the next five years in Ontario.
November 21, 2005

Canada and Saskatchewan Sign New Immigration Agreement
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/releases/2005/index.asp
The Agreement replaces the original Canada-Saskatchewan Agreement,
signed on March 16, 1998.

Canada-Saskatchewan Agreement on Labour Market Development
http://www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/ei/lma/sask/sask5_e.html
One of the expected results of provincial programs is the sustained employment or self-employment by clients of provincial programs and services, including by Metis Nations, First Nations, visible minorities, people with disabilities, women (in non-traditional programming), youth, single parents with dependant children, and social assistance recipient participants...

INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS

Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI)
http://cbsa.gc.ca/agency/whti-ivho/menu-e.html
As of January 23, 2007, a new American law will require Canadians to carry a passport to travel by air into the U.S.

Safe Third Country Agreement comes into force December 29, 2004.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/about/laws-policy/menu-safethird.asp

Canada signed the UN 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol to protect refugees from being returned to a country where they would face persecution.