Implementing UN Declaration Act Action Plan Measure 52 - PROPOSED AMENDMENTS

This can be achieved through the following actions: 1) Amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) and its corresponding regulations in order to affirm the right of Inuit to enter Canada and to create a pathway to residency in Canada for Alaska and Greenland Inuit. [...] This can be achieved by amending the IRPA and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations to include new provisions affirming the right of Inuit to enter Canada and that create a new permanent residency class accessible to Inuit and other Indigenous peoples. [...] Section 19 should be amended as follows: Right of entry of citizens and Indians Indigenous Peoples: 19 (1) Every Canadian citizen within the meaning of the Citizenship Act, and every person registered as an Indian under the Indian Act, every person registered as a member of a United States federally recognized tribe located in a border state, and every Greenlander, has the right to enter and remai. [...] Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (SOR/2022-227) A new part of the Regulations should be added (Part 8) to recognize an Indigenous Peoples class: Part 8 - Indigenous Peoples class Class 138 For the purposes of subsection 12(1) of the Act, the Indigenous Peoples class is hereby prescribed as a class of persons who may become permanent residents on the basis of the requirements of this. [...] www.itk.ca - 3 - Section 70(2) of the Regulations should be amended to include the following class of applicants eligible to apply for permanent residency from outside Canada: (2) The classes are a) the family class; b1) the Indigenous Peoples class; b) the economic class, consisting of the federal skilled worker class, the Quebec skilled worker class, the provincial nominee class, the Canadian ex.