Once you are a permanent resident, the Charter protects your right to live and work anywhere in Canada. But these programs exist to grow specific communities, and you must have genuinely intended to settle there when you applied and landed. Leaving almost immediately after landing can raise misrepresentation concerns, because it suggests your intention was never real — and misrepresentation findings are serious. Settle in good faith and give the community a genuine chance; if your circumstances honestly change later, relocating is your right.
Updated July 2026