Liberals dodge question on how many illegal immigrants working on federally-funded job sites
MP Seeback pointed to similarities between the number of unemployed skilled workers last year and the number of temporary foreign worker permits issued for skilled occupations.
A Conservative MP is demanding answers after Immigration Minister Lena Diab admitted Ottawa has no estimate of how many undocumented immigrants may be working on federally funded construction sites and could not point to a single investigation into the issue.
During debate on the 2026 Main Estimates, Kyle Seeback pressed the minister on whether illegal workers are being used on taxpayer-subsidized projects and what enforcement is underway, but Diab did not provide figures or examples of active crackdowns, instead pointing to general
In November, the federal government acknowledged that it was unaware how many illegal immigrants were involved in public works in response to an Inquiry Of Ministry tabled in the Commons.
