Then the electronic is 'the original.'Hello, I really appreciate your response. Yes, I meant the same. I just read the question for employment clearly now and it says submit original letter of employment and that confused me as my employer sent me a pdf which i printed and attached with the application, so after reading that I got worried that did I need a signed originals. Thanks
I can't speak specifically to this for employment letter (wasn't needed in our case), but, for example, PCC from the country we received it from is now only issued in electronic form; IRCC documentation still insists it must be original. It wasn't a problem.
In other words, IRCC is aware that this is how the world works now (at least for many things), and they're not trying to punish people for no reason, as long as the documents are genuine of course.