🍁 In Simple Terms
You are a worker if you were authorized to enter and remain as one. Same structure as the visitor rule: the status comes from the authorization, and the permit is the evidence of it.
Affects: Immigration applicants (economic, family, humanitarian)
Legal Text: IRPR Regulation 195
195 A foreign national is a worker and a member of the worker class if the foreign national has been authorized to enter and remain in Canada as a worker.
In Practice
Related Regulations
Official Source: Justice Canada: IRPR r. 195 (authoritative, may differ from this display)
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