AND… It’s Coming: Immigration Minister’s Broad ‘Authority for Negative Discretion’

Introduction In an earlier blog post on Electronic Travel Authorizations (eTAs), I  wrote about my “theory” that Negative Discretion declarations under section 22.1 of Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) would increase. To recap, IRPA allows the Minister’s on his own initiative to declare that that a foreign national may not become a temporary resident for […]