Canadian Immigration and
Citizenship Indexing Terms

December 2002

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Hague Convention
  FRA:  Convention de La Haye
  SN:   The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and
        Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption   
        sets minimum standards and procedures for adoption
        between countries.                                

Handbooks
  FRA:  Guide
  UF:   Guides

Handicapped persons
  USE:  Persons with disabilities

Handicaps
  USE:  Disabilities

Handling of Public Money
  FRA:  Gestion des deniers publics
  UF:   HPM

Hate crimes
  FRA:  Crime haineuse

Health
  FRA:  Santé

Health care facilities
  FRA:  Établissement de santé
  UF:   Hospitals

Health care system
  FRA:  Régime de soins de santé
  SN:   Use for items that refer to either or both        
        physical and mental health.                       
  UF:   Health services
        Mental health services

Health check
  USE:  Medical screening

Health education
  FRA:  Éducation sanitaire

Health inadmissibility
  FRA:  Interdiction de territoire pour motifs sanitaires

Health policy
  FRA:  Politique en matière de santé
  SN:   Use for a course or method of action deliberately 
        chosen that guides or influences decisions on     
        health issues.  Use for outlining, discussing or  
        proposing changes to policy.  For actual          
        statements issued by political parties or         
        governments, use both this heading and 'Policy    
        documents'.                                       

Health risk
  FRA:  Risque pour la santé

Health services
  USE:  Health care system

Hearings
  FRA:  Audience
  UF:   Citizenship hearings
        Oral hearings
        Oral interviews
        Oral tests

Hepatitis
  FRA:  Hépatite

Heritage buildings
  FRA:  Édifice patrimonial
  UF:   Historic buildings

Historians
  FRA:  Historien

Historic buildings
  USE:  Heritage buildings

Historic sites
  FRA:  Lieu historique
  UF:   National historic sites

Historical societies
  FRA:  Société d'histoire

History
  FRA:  Histoire

History of Canada
  USE:  Canadian history

HIV
  USE:  AIDS

Holidays
  FRA:  Jour férié

Holy books
  FRA:  Livre saint
  UF:   Bibles

Home children
  FRA:  Petit immigré anglais
  SN:   Use to describe the child emigration movement     
        between 1869 and the early 1930s in which over    
        100,000 children came to Canada from Great        
        Britain.                                          

Home study
  FRA:  Évaluation du foyer d'accueil
  SN:   Use to describe investigations conducted by       
        provinces/territories with regards to the         
        suitability of potential adoptive parents who
        wish to adopt a child from another country.            

Homeless
  USE:  Homelessness

Homelessness
  FRA:  Sans abri
  UF:   Homeless

Homesteading
  FRA:  Concession d'établissement
  UF:   Homesteads

Homesteads
  USE:  Homesteading

Homosexual couples
  USE:  Same-sex couples

Honorary citizenship
  FRA:  Citoyenneté honoraire
  SN:   Honorary citizenship is a recognition that has    
        been bestowed by the Parliament of Canada twice in
        Canadian history: in 1985 to Raoul Wallenberg and 
        in 2001 to Nelson Mandela. It is a purely symbolic
        status that does not confer any of the rights,    
        privileges or duties normally associated with     
        Canadian citizenship.                             

Hospitality expenses
  FRA:  Frais de représentation

Hospitals
  USE:  Health care facilities

Host Program
  FRA:  Programme d'accueil

Hosting programs
  FRA:  Programme d'accueil
  SN:   Use for programs whereby communities and community
        members offer support and assistance to refugees  
        during the resettlement stage.                    

Households
  FRA:  Ménage

Housing
  FRA:  Logement
  UF:   Accommodations

Housing policy
  FRA:  Politique de logement
  SN:   Use for a course or method of action deliberately 
        chosen that guides or influences decisions on     
        housing matters.  Use for outlining, discussing or
        proposing changes to policy.  For actual          
        statements issued by political parties or         
        governments, use both this heading and 'Policy    
        documents'.                                       

HPM
  USE:  Handling of Public Money

HRDC confirmations
  FRA:  Confirmations de DRHC
  SN:   A confirmation from HRDC used by immigration      
        officers when assessing whether to issue work     
        permits.                                          
  UF:   Employment validations
        Job offer validations

Human capital
  FRA:  Capital humain
  SN:   Use for investment in the education and skills of 
        a country's population.                           

Human resource management
  FRA:  Gestion des ressources humaines
  SN:   Use for all activities related to the planning,   
        managing and developing of an organization's human
        resources.                                        
  UF:   Personnel management

Human rights
  FRA:  Droits de la personne
  SN:   Use for the rights of an individual that are      
        considered basic to life in any human society.    

Human rights commissions
  FRA:  Commission des droits de la personne

Human rights violations
  FRA:  Violation des droits de la personne

Human smuggling
  USE:  Human trafficking

Human trafficking
  FRA:  Trafic de personnes
  UF:   Human smuggling
        Migrant smuggling
        People smuggling
        Smuggling, humans

Humanitarian and compassionate review
  FRA:  Révision pour des raisons d'ordre humanitaire
  SN:   Use for activities related to the process of      
        determining humanitarian exceptions to the rules  
        of immigration categories.                        
  UF:   Compassionate review

Humanitarian designated classes
  FRA:  Catégorie désignée pour considérations humanitaires
  SN:   This class consists of the country of asylum class
        and the source country class.                     

Hybrid offences
  FRA:  Infraction mixte
  SN:   Criminal charges for which the crown can elect to 
        proceed summarily or by indictment.  Hybrid       
        offences are also considered to be indictable     
        until the Crown decides to proceed summarily.     
  UF:   Crown elect offence
        Dual offence

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