Section 315.29 — Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations: Purpose

The purpose of this Division is to implement the Asylum Annex, the objectives of which, as elaborated more specifically through its provisions, are to preserve and protect the participants’ refugee status determination systems; enhance the participants’ abilities to assist those who qualify for protection from persecution or from torture; support efforts to share responsibility between the participants in providing protection to qualified refugee status claimants; identify and prevent abuse of the participants’ refugee status determination systems and citizenship and immigration laws; and identify those who are excluded from protection or denied protection according to the Refugee Convention, as implemented in the participants’ domestic legislation or whose refugee protection may be subject to termination, cancellation or revocation.