Federal Court

The Federal Court Dept: In a decision released Thursday, Federal Court Justice Donald Rennie said the move did not break any rules or violate the applicants' charter rights, according to CBC. That followed a decision announced in the 2012 budget to wipe out an existing backlog in the program by returning thousands of applications and The Federal Court has ruled that the rights of would-be immigrants were not violated when the Conservative government closed their files and refunded their application fees to get rid of a massive backlog. The government stopped accepting new applications under the federal skilled-worker program last July in advance of rejigging the system. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.