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Federal and Provincial governments are given the responsibility of immigration.
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Criminals, the poor, and the disabled are not allowed to immigrate to Canada.
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It was passed to encourage settlement and repel invasion by the U.S.
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Head tax of 50$ is set for Chinese Immigrants
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The head tax is now 100$ per person.
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Head tax is now 500$ per person.
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Immigration act now allows the government to deport for disability, insanity, criminal offence, or disease.
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The Government can now suspend immigration from "enemy nations" Hungary, Austria, and Germany. Immigrants from these places are dubbed enemy aliens.
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Immigration is limited for various religious groups, including Hutterites, Doukhobors, Bulgarians, and Austrians.
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"Undesirable Peoples" were barred entry, including The mentaly ill, alcoholics, and people with "strange habits or llifestyles"
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Chinese people are not allowed to immigrate to Canad unless they are students, diplomats, investors, the the children of Canadians
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The economy crashed, and the praries were stuck in a lasting dust storm due to little rain, and so crops dried up and stopped holding down the soil. There was widesread unemployement and povrety
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People born outside of Canada can now become Canadian citizens.
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The Chinese Immigration Act is no longer in effect.
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New department formed to manage Citizenship and Immigration.
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A Points System is introduced to judge who should be let in to Canada
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Refugee now counts as a class of immigrant.
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THe Canadian Citizenship Act is revised.
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Immigration ACt now gives more power to provinces, makes categories of immigrants, and lists/defines prohibited classes (those who would be too big a burden on health and/or social services, or a financial burden on Canada).
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Refugees and Landed immigrants now have the same rights as Canadian Citizens
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Five year plan is introduced to increase immigration, to fight off an economic depression
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Each immigrant has to pay a required 975$
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Fee no longer applies to refugees
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There are now stricter requirements for buisness class immigrants and for refugees
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More refugees will now be accepted.
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Refugees only have 15 days tosubmit their refugee claims, and some refugees may be held in detention.
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Pints System now prioritizes language knowledge, those with jobs waiting for them in Canada, and poeple with education