In paragraph 7 of the Auditor General's presentation, it says, “We looked at 38 cases in which the RCMP should have shared information about charges with the Department, and we found that it had shared the information in only 2 cases.” It goes on, “We also found that after the criminal clearance check was completed, the Department had no systematic way to obtain information directly from police forces—other than the RCMP—on criminal charges against citizenship applicants.”
I'll start with the second part of that quote. How hard is it to get records of criminal charges related to citizenship applicants from police forces?