A person is inadmissible for organized criminality — being a member of, or participating in, a criminal organization (gang, organized crime group). This is broader than just being convicted of a crime.
(1)A permanent resident or a foreign national is inadmissible on grounds of organized criminality for(a) being a member of an organization that is believed on reasonable grounds to be or to have been engaged in activity that is part of a pattern of criminal activity planned and organized by a number of persons acting in concert in furtherance of the commission of an offence punishable under an Act of Parliament by way of indictment, or in furtherance of the commission of an offence outside Canada that, if committed in Canada, would constitute such an offence, or engaging in activity that is part of such a pattern; or
(b)engaging, in the context of transnational crime, in activities such as people smuggling, trafficking in persons or laundering of money or other proceeds of crime.