🍁 In Simple Terms
Helping someone else lie is a crime in its own right. Knowingly counselling, inducing or helping a person to misrepresent or hide material facts that could throw off a decision under this law is an offence. You do not have to be the applicant, and you do not have to succeed: an attempt counts.
Affects: Persons subject to removal or detention
Legal Text: IRPA Section 126
126 Every person who knowingly counsels, induces, aids or abets or attempts to counsel, induce, aid or abet any person to directly or indirectly misrepresent or withhold material facts relating to a relevant matter that induces or could induce an error in the administration of this Act is guilty of an offence.
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Official Source: Justice Canada: IRPA s. 126 (authoritative, may differ from this display)
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