Entering Canada for the first time: does it HAVE TO be from your country of orig

[Cuban Immigrant]

My Cuban husband is going to receive his Canadian Permanent Resident visa any day now (in Havana). We live in Ecuador and he has permission from the Cuban authorities to leave Cuba only to fly to Ecuador. We were hoping to fly to Canada together for Christmas, but someone in the Canadian Embassy in Havana told my husband that his first trip to Canada HAS TO be directly from Cuba. With a P.R. visa in his passport, is this actually true? Does it matter what country he comes from? It's not fair if it's true as we only live together in Ecuador because Canada took so long to give him the visa! Can he enter Canada from Ecuador instead of Cuba?

 

[scylla]

He can enter Canada from anywhere. It doesn't have to be directly from Cuba.

A good friend of mine who's American just landed in Canada via a direct flight from the UK. No problems.

 

[Cuban Immigrant]

But Americans and Cubans hold much different status in this world... are you sure that's true for all nationality groups?

 

[scylla]

Yes - I'm sure.

Canada doesn't care which country a PR arrives from. It's all the same once you hit immigration.

 

[Baloo]

But Americans and Cubans hold much different status in this world...

Not in Canada

 

[Cuban Immigrant]

Okay, so I have a follow-up question. Why would an immigration representative in a Canadian Embassy abroad give out blantantly false information like this agent did to my husband? This misinformation could have cost us a lot of extra time, grief and money if I hadn't found out differently. To whom should I report this? Does anyone in Canada monitor what goes on in visa offices abroad?