Canada says it is going to prolong ‘tremendous visa’ stays, calm down health-insurance restrictions to ease household reunifications
Beginning subsequent month, the federal authorities will prolong how lengthy Canadians’ visiting mother and father and grandparents can keep on this nation and permit them to make use of international medical insurance throughout their time right here — two long-sought changes to this nation’s controversial “tremendous visa” program.
The modifications will come into impact July 4.
The shock announcement from Immigration Minister Sean Fraser on Tuesday got here within the wake of an ongoing overview by the parliamentary immigration committee of a non-public member’s invoice, C-242, to amend the regulation to make these actual modifications. It was a bid to