Chapter 5 And 6: Immigration And Economics

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Immigration

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The process of people establishing homes, and often citizenship, in a county that is not their native country.

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Immigrant

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A person who comes to live permanently in a country

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Refugee

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A person who seeks refuge in another country because of danger or persecution in their home country.

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Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA)

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A program established in 2002 that outlines who can come to canada and make permanent homes here.

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Family Class Immigrant

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Spouses, partners, children, parents and grandparents of people living in Canada

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Economic (Working) Class Immigrant

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Skilled workers and businesspeople that wish to immigrate to Canada

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Point System

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A system that dates from 1967 that applies only to economic class immigrants that is that criteria Canada uses to decide who to accept as immigrants

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Singh Decision

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Satnam Singh came to Canada from India seeking refugee status. Canada rejected his case, which violated section seven of the charter of rights and freedoms. The supreme court ruled that that section of the charter should apply to anyone on Canadian soil. This means people in Canada seeking refugee status have the right to a hearing, and the necessities of life while they wait for their hearing.

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Provincial Nomination Program

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- A program that allows provinces to nominate an immigrant to come to their province. This allows provinces to address needs, and allows immigrants to immigrate quicker and skip some processes.

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Canada-Quebec Accord

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- This Accord relates to the selection of persons who wish to reside
permanently or temporarily in Québec, their admission into Canada, their
integration into Québec society, and the determination of levels of
immigration to Québec.

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Economics

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- The study of the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services

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Economic System

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- How a society organizes the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services

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Economy

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- The resources and processes involved in the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services

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Scarcity

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- In economics, the idea that land (materials), labour and capital (money) limit the supply of what people want and need

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Land

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- The resource that encompasses the natural resources used in production. In classical economics, the three factors of production are land, labour, and capital

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Labour

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- A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

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- Capital

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a factor of production. Capital would be something that would help create something to be sold, it could be something as complex as a computer or something simple as a pencil.

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- Public Enterprise/Publically Owned

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In Canada, it is economically defined as part of the economy owned and controlled by government and paid for by taxes. In different countries this would vary, an example of this in Canada would be a Provincial or National Park.

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- Public Good

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what is best for society as a whole, for the greater good and a benefit to society rather than just an individual.

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- Planned Economy

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a planned economy is a more liberal way of economic government. The only societies that really have come close to a true planned economy, which is generally seen as a utopian society, would be the Khmer Rouge in the 80’s under control by Pol Pot in Cambodia, and debatably Cuba under control of Fidel Castro. A true planned economy is almost impossible to achieve, it would be where every sector of commerce and everything is controlled under a government monopoly without any private enterprise. Almost all of the time this is a communist government. Although planned economies are generally seen as that they have to be authoritarian, it is possible to achieve a anarcho-planned economy or a libertarian planned economy, however, it is highly unlikely that this sort of economic system would flourish seeing as no matter how hard someone works they are all paid the same and receive that same quality of life. The pros of this is that it will nearly eradicate poverty, starvation and homelessness, generally there is a

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- Mixed Economy

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A mixed economy is the system that almost every single country in history has adopted for an economic system seeing as it is almost impossible to achieve a planned economy, and very unlikely for a government to flourish with a market economy. The mixed economy would adopt parts from planned and mixed economies so as to make it more efficient by adopting the pros of each system, while eliminating the cons. A mixed economy would have to generally lean towards the left or right, depending on if the government places emphasis on taking care of yourself, or for the common good.

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- Market Economy

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A full and true market economy would not be impossible to achieve, however it is highly unlikely that any government would adopt such a primitive style of economics. A market economy is the most right wing that one could get and entails that government essentially has no place in economy, there should be no regulation on corporations, and that governments only role should be to basically protect individuals. A market economy would have a full privatized system, with no nationalized or government run corporations. Many societies have achieved this, or nearly achieved this, however the cons outweigh the pros very much. The environment has no protection, and these corporations are all for-profit, which means they will likely be willing to destroy the environment for money. The pros are that the government would not have any taxation or regulations so everybody has economic freedom, however, all the companies would be regulating small businesses and in the end, most people would end up being workers for one mass

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- Crown Corporation

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A crown corporation is a nationalized and government run company, the reason there would be a crown corporation would be that it is efficient for the government to be running something, or generally a service that is no longer making profit, but is still necessary. For example, Canada Post.

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Quality of Life

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a measure of personal and collective well-being

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Supply

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the products and services created by producers

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Demand

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the wants and needs of consumers for products and services

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Producers

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those who create products and services

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Consumers

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those who use products and services

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Competition

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in economics, rivalry among producers to sell products to consumers

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Monopoly

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the exclusive possession or control by one business or provider of the supply or trade in a commodity or service

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Labour Unions

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an organization of workers that acts to protect workers’ rights and interests

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Collective Bargaining

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negotiating as a group; collective bargaining is the key right established by unions for workers