Mr. Speaker, yesterday at committee, the Auditor General revealed multiple situations where the immigration department failed to investigate, or even detect, significant cases of fraud. At the same meeting, the deputy minister of immigration pleaded ignorance on the topic, saying, “it's my fourth week on the job...so I can't answer the question”.
In fact, for two straight hours, he had zero answers as to why the Auditor General found over 153,000 cases of immigration fraud yet his department only investigated 2%. The Prime Minister said the system was under control, but like everything else, that was an illusion.
I have a simple question. Why has the immigration minister lost control?