With regard to the activities of the Canadian embassy in Tunis and Tunisian students who disappeared after their arrival in Canada: ( a ) were the applicants each individually interviewed; ( b ) were their claims of being students certified by checking with the intended Canadian universities that they were paid-up registered students; ( c ) were the bank accounts of the applicants checked to see if they had sufficient money to travel; ( d ) did the embassy or the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade do anything to change procedures and discipline staff; ( e ) was there concern about fraud from any employee; ( f ) what specifically has been done to prevent a repeat of this situation; and ( g ) why, when discovered in Canada, were all students not detained and deported?
In the House of Commons on May 1st, 2002. See this statement in context.