Housekeeping with teeth. This is where the student and worker categories come from, along with the conditions placed on permanent residents, foreign nationals, employers and schools. It also backs the inspection of employers and the money penalties they face when they break the rules attached to hiring a foreign worker.
32 The regulations may provide for any matter relating to the application of sections 27 to 31, may define, for the purposes of this Act, the terms used in those sections, and may include provisions respecting (a)classes of temporary residents, such as students and workers; (b)selection criteria for each class of foreign national and for their family members, and the procedures for evaluating all or some of those criteria; (c)anything referred to in paragraph (b) for which a decision or recommendation may or must be made by a designated person, institution or organization; (d)the conditions that must or may be imposed, varied or cancelled, individually or by class, on permanent residents and foreign nationals, including conditions respecting work or study; (d.1)the conditions that must or may be imposed, individually or by class, on individuals and entities — including employers and educational institutions — in respect of permanent residents and foreign nationals, or that must or may be varied or cancelled; (d.2)the power to inspect — including the power to require documents to be provided by individuals and entities, including employers and educational institutions, for inspection — for the purpose of verifying compliance with the conditions imposed under paragraphs (d) and (d.1); (d.3)the consequences of a failure to comply with the conditions referred to in paragraphs (d) and (d.1); (d.4)a system of administrative monetary penalties applicable to the contravention by an employer of any conditions referred to in paragraph (d.1) and the amounts of those penalties; (d.5)the requirement for an employer to provide a prescribed person with prescribed information in relation to a foreign national’s authorization to work in Canada for the employer; (e)the residency obligation under section 28, including rules for calculating applicable days and periods; and (f)the circumstances in which a document indicating status or a travel document may or must be issued, renewed or revoked.
32.1 (1) A foreign national who is outside Canada and who holds a permanent resident visa, temporary resident visa, electronic travel authorization, temporary resident permit or any other document must, in order to confirm that they meet the requirements of this Act in respect of that document and in the prescribed circumstances, answer truthfully all questions put to them by an officer and must produce a visa and all relevant evidence and documents that the officer reasonably requires. (2) A foreign national who is outside Canada and who holds a document referred to in subsection (1) must, in order to confirm that they meet the requirements of this Act in respect of that document and in the prescribed circumstances, appear for an examination, including a medical examination, on request of an officer. (3) For greater certainty, subsections (1) and (2) do not affect any other lawful authority relating to the conduct of an examination of foreign nationals.
32.2 The regulations may prescribe the circumstances in which a foreign national who is outside Canada and who holds a document referred to in subsection 32.1(1) must appear for examination, answer truthfully all questions put to them and produce a visa and all relevant evidence and documents.