Mr. Speaker, yesterday I asked the immigration minister what he was going to do to stop abuse of Canadian generosity by Sri Lankans who claim to be refugees but then take vacations in Sri Lanka.
Unbelievably, the minister said that he had not been told about the problem. He did not know that all through 1994 immigration officials had been identifying people in Sri Lanka who had refugee status in Canada.
Was the minister aware that bogus refugees were being identified in Sri Lanka? If he was, why did he not do anything about it?