Nearly half of foreign nationals flagged by security agencies to the immigration department for ties to serious offences like war crimes, espionage and terrorism were allowed into the country anyways between 2014 and 2019.
Only 177 were approved because IRCC disagreed with CBSA’s assessment.
Caron denied that immigration officials would decline to follow security screening recommendations because they don’t trust CBSA’s work, noting that IRCC staff are “satisfied” with the quality of the screening results. “When it happens 46 per cent of the time, why the hell even bother having CBSA then? Why did you ask them in the first place if you’re basically flipping a coin? This is yet another example of why we need to have serious oversight and constant audit of CBSA and its relationship with other agencies,” Sundberg said.Both the audit and Caron noted that none of the foreign nationals who were flagged as non-favourable and still let into Canada have faced “enforcement actions” since.
The audit does not note why so many public-policy exemptions were granted, but it does highlight the fact that there were two major and unexpected influxes of applications during the five years covered by the audit. “On the other hand, without specific information indicating inadmissibility, the IRCC officers generally do not have sufficient grounds on which to deny the application.”
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