‘Racism plays a role in immigration decisions,’ House Immigration Committee hears

Witnesses expressed concerns over a lack of transparency from the department as well as systemic bias being embedded in the automated intelligence the department uses to triage immigration files.

Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said racism is a 'sickness in our society,' and said there is 'zero tolerance for racism, discrimination, or harassment of any kind,' but acknowledged those problems do exist within the department. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CHELSEA NASH

March 28, 2022

“Kids in India are not back-packers as they are in Canada” reads a note appended to a slide in a presentation used to train Canadian immigration officials in mid-2019. In a recent access to information request, Immigration law...

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