Auditor General report slams Carney government over student visa fraud
SHOCKING: federal auditor general's report finds the Carney government lacks the capacity to investigate 98.7 per cent of flagged student visa fraud cases.
A new auditor general report exposes incredible fraud in Canada’s immigration system and shows that the government does not have the capacity to investigate this massive fraud.
Conservatives are calling the mess a “dumpster fire” and demanding that Immigration Minister Lena Diab resign after the audit found that the federal immigration department “lacks the funds” to investigate more than 98.7 per cent of the fraud in a two-year period.
The report released on Monday found that between 2023 and 2024, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) identified over 153,000 international students as “potentially non-compliant with study permit conditions but had funding to investigate only 2,000 cases a year.