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This is a perfect example of why many Canadians have little faith in the federal government's ability to keep them safe.
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It all started with a question posed by conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner.
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In September, she asked Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government how often Canadian citizenship is granted or denied to people with criminal records.
The answer was that the government has no idea that the answer is a word salad of non-information.
Namely:
“Due to data limitations, the department cannot report the number of applications for which the applicant has a criminal record that (have been) received, approved, denied, received but… are still awaiting a decision, and cannot provide a breakdown of the types of crimes that the department determined were serious enough to deny citizenship and not serious enough to deny citizenship.”
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That was the response from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada presented in the House of Commons last week.
The number appears to be in the thousands, given that between January 2019 and August 2019, 2,530 applications were rejected under Section 22 of the Citizenship Law.
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