Bill C-17 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act

This bill is from the 39th Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in September 2008.

Sponsor

Diane Finley  Conservative

Status

In committee (House), as of Nov. 1, 2007
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament has also written a full legislative summary of the bill.

This enactment amends the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to allow officers to refuse to authorize foreign nationals to work in Canada in cases where to give authorization would be contrary to public policy considerations that are specified in instructions given by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.

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C-45 (40th Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
C-57 (39th Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-17s:

C-17 (2022) An Act to amend the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act and to authorize certain payments to be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund
C-17 (2020) Law Appropriation Act No. 5, 2020-21
C-17 (2020) An Act respecting additional COVID-19 measures
C-17 (2016) Law An Act to amend the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act and to make a consequential amendment to another Act

Citizenship and Immigration Committee, on Jan. 30, 2008