My question was, if you prefer, when will they release the date for 3/5.
I know it's decided by the Governor in council (in fact the Minister of Immigration telling him when).
Again, there is a good chance that today or tomorrow the Minister or IRCC will release a statement indicating something about prospective implementation dates.
Actually, they will almost certainly release a statement about the adoption of Bill C-6 some time today or tomorrow. It will probably offer some indication of prospective dates. Information about dates is not likely to be precise. Nor is there any guarantee that will be the actual time line.
Eventually there will be two definitive sources of information about the date the 3/5 rule takes effect. As I noted earlier, the Governor in Council's Order will be published in the Gazette. That will be the
official source. That will not necessarily happen, however, before the actual date; it is likely to happen before the date but by how much can vary a lot.
The other definitive source will be IRCC either issuing a formal notice or press release, or otherwise posting the information at the IRCC website. This will
NOT be
official but it will be a reliable, authoritative source. This will precede the date the change takes effect. Will probably precede the date the Governor in Council's Order is published. But again, by how much can vary a great deal.
In the meantime, the forum is likely to flooded by all sorts of
for-sure dates which are
NOT credible, not at all credible. And an oppressively massive amount of unsubstantiated, ill-informed guessing.
Main thing is to wait to see what the Minister and/or IRCC offer today or tomorrow. If they provide fairly precise information about the prospective timeline, that will be the most likely timeline. If they do not offer a timeline or only a vague timeline, we simply will not know when, except to acknowledge it will take several months to implement the 3/5 rule but it should nonetheless be implemented within a reasonable time frame (reasonable in terms of practical reality, not as measured by the demands of those waiting on it happening).
By the way, regarding:
". . . decided by the Governor in council (in fact the Minister of Immigration telling him when) . . ."
Actually it is the Prime Minister, in consultation with his advisers, who informs the Governor General (the Governor in Council) when to order coming-into-force dates. As I previously noted, typically the respective Minister is among the PM's advisers (perhaps the key adviser), but not necessarily so. The PM may delegate this decision-making, including to the respective Minister. Harper appears to have almost always (perhaps always) kept this decision-making very much within a small group of advisers very close to him. Trudeau seems to be significantly less controlling (but to my view surprisingly more so than I anticipated early on, at least relative to some aspects of his government).
And in respect to Bill C-6 and the 3/5 rule in particular, since the government has overtly stated that the timing will take into consideration the impact on processing timelines for citizenship applications, the Minister is sure to be the one informing the PM about when is best.
