🍁 In Simple Terms
Your undertaking goes to the federal Minister, unless you live in a province that runs its own financial rules for sponsors under an agreement, in which case it goes to that province instead. In practice this is the Quebec split, and it changes who assesses your income and who comes after you if the sponsorship breaks (137).
Affects: Family class sponsors and their relatives
Legal Text: IRPR Regulation 131
131 The sponsor’s undertaking shall be given (a)to the Minister; or (b)if the sponsor resides in a province that has entered into an agreement referred to in subsection 8(1) of the Act that enables the province to determine and apply financial criteria with respect to sponsorship undertakings and to administer sponsorship undertakings, to the competent authority of the province.
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Official Source: Justice Canada: IRPR r. 131 (authoritative, may differ from this display)
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