Permanent Residents and Canada Border Services Agency

Canada Border Services Agency: Under the proposed Removal of Serious Foreign Criminals Act, permanent residents convicted of a serious crime will be ineligible for a record suspension otherwise known as a pardon. The government will also be allowed to bypass the usual admissibility hearing before issuing a deportation, according to Metro News. A representative from Canada Border Services Agency said that removing the admissibility hearing for permanent residents significantly streamlines the current process which means faster removals and cost savings to taxpayers and Impaired driving causing bodily harm, theft over $5,000, cultivation of marijuana under a new bill, all of these offences could send a permanent resident back to their home country without a hearing. That means a convicted person would no longer have an opportunity to have their deportation reviewed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.