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Heard: January 14-16, 2013 Judgment: April 18, 2013* Immigration and citizenship –––– Admission — Application for temporary resident or immigrant visa — General principles –––– Whether amendments terminating open applications for admission operate retrospectively — Immigra- tion matters — In response to growing backlog of applications for permanent residence in Canada in federal skilled worker (FSW) class, Parliament amended Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) — Amendments came into force on June 29, 2012 — Pursuant to s. 87.4 of Act as amended, any FSW per- manent residence application commenced prior to February 27, 2008 was statu- torily terminated unless Immigration Officer had made admission decision prior to March 29, 2012 — Applicants, aliens who had each commenced FSW appli- cations prior to February 27, 2008, were advised by Minister that their applica- tions were terminated by operation of s. 87.4 of IRPA as amended — Aliens brought application for, inter alia, declaration that amendments did not operate retrospectively to bar FSW applications but that IRPA continued to require indi- vidual adjudication of each application — Application dismissed — Assuming without deciding that aliens had vested rights prior to coming into force of *Corrigenda filed June 13, 2013 and June 18, 2013 have been incorporated herein. 2 IMMIGRATION LAW REPORTER 18 Imm. L.R. (4th) amendments, then absent clear intent of Parliament statute should not be inter- preted to remove those rights — Pursuant to s. 12 of Interpretation Act and judg- ment of Supreme Court of Canada in Celgene Corp. v. Canada (Attorney Gen- eral), however, where language of legislative instrument is “precise and unequivocal” then ordinary meaning of words used is dominant tool of statutory interpretation — In present case s. 87.4 of IRPA as amended, particularly word “terminated”, was “precise and unequivocal”, and clear intent of Parliament was that amendments were to operate retrospectively to remove aliens’ vested rights — Language of s. 87.4(1) of IRPA created non-discretionary application of law to “incontestable facts” — On facts of present case, all aliens were caught by s.