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Article: Business immigrants scoff at the law.(Brief Article)
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- Alberta Report
- Article date:
- October 25, 1999
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* Between 1994 and 1998, more than 7,000 business-class immigrants failed to open a business in Canada, thus violating the terms of their entrepreneur visas. Ottawa is ignoring the deficiency. In 1998, only 53 violators were summoned to hearings at the Immigration and Refugee Board, and one was deported. Don Myatt, director of the federal business immigration program in Winnipeg, ...