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Canada is party to both treaties. To apply for refugee status, the asylum seeker must first establish a well-founded fear of persecution and be unable to obtain protection from their country of nationality. [6] The persecution must be due to reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.
Kamala Devi Harris was born in Oakland, California, 1964 to biologist Shyamala Gopalan and economist Donald J. Harris. The Harris family moved to various locations in the Midwestern United States from 1966 to 1970, when she moved back to California. At the age of twelve, she moved to Montreal, Quebec, where she attended school through her first ...
Starting in 1965, Canada became the main haven for Vietnam War resisters. Canadian immigration policy at the time made it easy for immigrants from all countries to obtain legal status in Canada, and classified war resisters as immigrants. [3] There is no official estimate of how many draft evaders and deserters were admitted during the Vietnam War.
In the early years of the United States, many American political figures were in favour of invading and annexing Canada, and even pre-approved the admission of the Province of Quebec (previously known as Canada) to the U.S. in the Articles of Confederation in 1777. During the American Revolutionary War, the Americans invaded the Saint Lawrence ...
Chinese immigrants began settling in Canada in the 1780s. [1] The major periods of Chinese immigration would take place from 1858 to 1923 and 1947 to the present day, reflecting changes in the Canadian government's immigration policy. Chinese immigrants were initially sought after by Canadian employers as a source of cheap labour due to Canada ...
Brown was born in 2000 and raised in London, Ontario, Canada. Brown originally attended the London South Collegiate Institute with his identical twin Sydney Brown , where they both played until they relocated from Canada to Florida as juniors in high school and attended Saint Stephen's Episcopal School in Bradenton, Florida .
1 [1] Residence. London, Ontario. Alma mater. Carleton University. Occupation. settlement worker. Arielle Kayabaga MP is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2021 Canadian federal election. She represents the electoral district of London West as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Map of state and official visits in this list. The following is a list of state and official visits made by Canada since the country's Confederation in 1867. These trips consist of either the monarch or a representative—the governor general, a lieutenant governor, or another member of the royal family—visiting a foreign country in an official capacity, either representing the Canadian ...