🍁 In Simple Terms
A commercial transporter can be charged an administration fee if it carries a foreign national to Canada who turns out to be inadmissible — particularly someone who lacked the required documents, was on a watchlist, or whom the transporter had already been warned about by CBSA.
Affects: Foreign nationals and permanent residents in Canada
Legal Text — IRPR Regulation 279
(1)279 (1) Subject to subsection (2), an administration fee must be assessed against a commercial transporter in respect of any of the following foreign nationals it carried or caused to be carried to Canada:
(2)(2) An administration fee shall not be assessed against a commercial transporter in respect of
IRPA Authority
Amendment History (1)
SOR/2016-37
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Official Source: Justice Canada — IRPR r. 279 (authoritative, may differ from this display)
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