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Immigration and Refugee Protection Act,2001

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PART 1IMMIGRATION TO CANADA

DIVISION 1REQUIREMENTS BEFORE ENTERING CANADA AND SELECTION

Requirements Before Entering Canada

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section 14

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(2) The regulations may prescribe, and govern any matter relating to, classes of permanent residents or foreign nationals, including the classes referred to in section 12, and may include provisions respecting

(a) selection criteria, the weight, if any, to be given to all or some of those criteria, the procedures to be followed in evaluating all or some of those criteria and the circumstances in which an officer may substitute for those criteria their evaluation of the likelihood of a foreign national's ability to become economically established in Canada;

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