Immigration caps ‘not solving the integrity problem,’ warn critics, after audit finds IRCC ‘not acting’ on fraud cases

The auditor general found the federal department investigated only 4,057 out of 153,324 foreign students who were potentially non-compliant with their study permits in 2023 and 2024.
Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada officials said they only had temporary funding to investigate 2,000 cases annually from 2023 to 2028, according to a March 23 auditor general’s report. Immigration Minister Lena Diab, pictured, said the government would work to 'strengthen integrity.'

The NDP and Bloc Québécois' immigration critics are calling out the “disregard” and “neglect” in the Liberals' international student program after an audit found that Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada did not investigate most cases of students who were ...

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