🍁 In Simple Terms
If your purpose is to break this law, you cannot hold, use, import, export or trade in passports, visas or other identity documents, real or fake. And where the document is forged, blank, altered or simply not genuine, the law starts from the assumption that you meant to break the Act, leaving it to you to show otherwise.
Affects: Persons subject to removal or detention
Legal Text: IRPA Section 122
(1)No person shall, in order to contravene this Act, (a)possess a passport, visa or other document, of Canadian or foreign origin, that purports to establish or that could be used to establish a person’s identity; (b)use such a document, including for the purpose of entering or remaining in Canada; or (c)import, export or deal in such a document.
In Practice
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Official Source: Justice Canada: IRPA s. 122 (authoritative, may differ from this display)
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