A Liberal government will spend $1.3 billion over the next five years to enhance settlement and integration programs

   The Liberals will commit $700 million over five years to clean up the backlog of applications

   Martin’s government will change the rules preventing immigrants living in Canada from applying to become Canadian while in the country

   That change will mean Canada will welcome 16,000 foreign students and resident workers by 2007

   The Liberals will invest $260 million over six years to speed up the recognition of foreign credentials

   $75 million will go toward accelerating the integration of 2,300 internationally-trained health-care professionals

   The Liberal government will eliminate the $975 immigration landing fee, reducing it immediately to $600, then $300 after 12 months, and to zero in the next two budgets

   The Liberals will continue to improve family re-unification efforts

   Cut the $975 immigration landing fee in half and work to reduce it to $100

   Support Canadian parents who adopt foreign-born children by extending automatic citizenship to these children once the adoption is final

   Create the Canadian Agency for Assessment and Recognition of Credentials -- dedicated to ensure that foreign-trained professionals meet Canadian standards and get into the workforce quickly

   Reduce the backlog of unexecuted deportation orders and swiftly carry out new ones

   Place top priority on executing existing and new deportation orders against individuals with criminal records, connections to terrorist organizations, or organized crime

   Amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Criminal Code, and the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to permit sentencing courts to order deportation following conviction on select offences and also to prohibit persons already ordered deported from parole eligibility before deportation

   Raise immigration levels to one per cent of the population

   Enact a once-in-a-lifetime provision to enable Canadian citizens and permanent residents to sponsor one relative

   Work with the provinces and territories to better recognize foreign credentials of professionals, and to help attract and retain immigrants to maintain labour force

   Eliminate the head tax on immigrants

   Freeze immigration fees, and use the money instead for education and skills training in Canada

   End lengthy delays in processing applications from such posts as Beijing and Delhi

   Amend current immigration laws, that currently bar most immigrants that would have been admitted during the Trudeau era

   Allow those who already call Canada home the opportunity to apply for legal status

   Eliminate head tax on immigrants, effectively regulating and enforcing tighter rules on private immigration consultants and their fees

   Make immigration and refugee system speedier, fairer and more accountable

   Freeze immigration fees to prevent gouging and allowing them to be used as credit towards education and skills training in Canada

   A sovereign Quebec will develop the tools to set up better immigration policies to attract immigrants to all regions of Quebec culture

   Transfer more money to the provinces to oversee their own immigration strategies

   Create an appeal office for refugees

   Create a national institution that promotes cultural diversity

   Remove barriers for reinstating professional credentials

   Improve cultural and business links with the home countries of new Canadians

   Work with municipalities and provinces to improve the integration of new

   Canadians into the multicultural fabric of our country

   Toughen regulations governing practices of "immigration consultants," and increase penalties for illegal smugglers

   Explain licensing requirements for health professionals being considered for immigration before their entry

   Give landed immigrants with professional qualifications the opportunity to obtain Canadian licences

   Help cultural organizations to obtain charitable status

   Conduct review of the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Public Safety Act to eliminate security certificates

   Release people detained under security certificates unless formal charges brought against them

   Regularize the estimated 200,000 people living in Canada without official status

   Open an investigation into allegations by the United Nations Human Rights

   Committee of Canadian officials cooperating with foreign agencies known to use torture