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         Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
            PART 1: IMMIGRATION TO CANADA
               Division 1: Requirements Before Entering Canada and Selection
                  Selection of Permanent Residents

Family reunification

12. (1) A foreign national may be selected as a member of the family class on the basis of their relationship as the spouse, common-law partner, child, parent or other prescribed family member of a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.

Economic immigration

(2) A foreign national may be selected as a member of the economic class on the basis of their ability to become economically established in Canada.

Refugees

(3) A foreign national, inside or outside Canada, may be selected as a person who under this Act is a Convention refugee or as a person in similar circumstances, taking into account Canada’s humanitarian tradition with respect to the displaced and the persecuted.