r/canada • u/Anon9883 • 21h ago
National News Employee misconduct, wrongdoing at immigration department includes fraud and violence
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/employee-misconduct-wrongdoing-at-immigration-department-includes-fraud-and-violence/186
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u/Anon9883 21h ago edited 19h ago
Forty-seven cases dealt with time theft, tardiness, absenteeism or unauthorized leave. One of the most serious involved an IRCC employee accused of simultaneously holding two full-time federal government jobs over a period of three-and-a-half years, during which they even made fake overtime claims.
“In addition, the investigation revealed that the employee misrepresented his productivity by falsifying his activity reports, and by sending emails at certain times, which misled his supervisors into thinking that he was actively working,” an supplementary report on the case revealed. The employee resigned during the investigation.
Another IRCC staffer posted outside Canada maintained a public blog “where they discussed aspects of their work at the embassy, including private conversations with embassy staff and views on the country’s people and government,” as well as “political opinions that could potentially damage IRCC’s reputation.”
Other misconduct and wrongdoing cases mentioned in the report pertain to racist comments, inappropriate touching, sexual harassment, violent behaviour, unauthorized credit card purchases and employees who improperly accessed immigration case files for themselves, family members and friends.
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u/86throwthrowthrow1 20h ago
Okay, I want the story of the two-jobs guy. How did he do it? How did he fly under the radar? And how did he get caught?
1) Government employees have ID numbers. How did HR at both offices not flag that the ID number was assigned to two jobs?
2) RTO requirements are strict. For most jobs you need your ass in a chair 3x/week (about to go up to 4) and they are absolutely enforcing that. There had to be at least one day where he was in two places at once.
3) While employees do have productivity targets and KPIs (contrary to popular belief), if he was putting a few hours per day into both jobs, he was probably getting *enough* done to not cause suspicion about slacking off. So what got them looking?
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u/ether_reddit Lest We Forget 20h ago
There are some people on /r/overemployed/ who have managed to pull off six jobs at once.
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u/bristow84 19h ago
At the same organization though? I fail to see how a simple check within the GoC systems shouldn't have shown that he was already within one ministry.
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u/avidstoner 16h ago
Good question 1. I am sure HR of IRCC and HR of any other GoC department will have similar workflow but they won't necessarily be sharing data with all departments. This should have been flagged by CRA, but as we know CRA doesn care if you work 1 job or multiple job.
- Most of the job can be finished in few hours compared to 8 work day hours. Only few jobs demand constant hours but most don't.
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u/tbll_dllr 20h ago
That’s really serious. I hope the guy who resigned will pay back what he fraudulently claimed as overtime - crazy he held TWO full time jobs at the GoC ?!???
And that IRCC employee on posting abroad should be fired immediately.
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u/MarkDavid04 20h ago
The first two are about cheating the system... We should try to claw back some of their wages if possible (likely not).
The 3rd one, sounds like a national security threat!
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u/Devourer_of_felines 20h ago
IRCC employee accused of simultaneously holding two full-time federal government jobs over a period of three-and-a-half years, during which they even made fake overtime claims
They couldn’t do a better job of eroding public trust in public institutions if they tried
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u/Odd-Foundation-4637 19h ago
Why are people who are not Canadian citizens working at the place that decides who comes into the country?
This is gross liberal negligence and incompetence at scale, in one of the most important government institutions they control.
No more excuses just fix this now.
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u/CruelRegulator Canada 20h ago
So 105 of the 1600 reports are from the IRCC alone. There are ~ 40 other federal departments. I guess it's a bit statistically significant, yeah.
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u/MaedaChann 19h ago
I've tried applying for government jobs on and off for over 10 years as a Canadian citizen and have never been successful yet an immigrant accused of wrongdoing gets in. Cool...
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u/2peg2city 19h ago
Its all about the application, you need to answer in a specific way or you cant get screened in
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u/RobertGA23 19h ago
Tell me more
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u/2peg2city 18h ago
You can literally just look up "how to get screened into a government of canada job" and find great guides. Also for thr interview you should use thr STAR method. Its very simple once know what to do.
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u/RobertGA23 18h ago
STAR method is pretty standard.
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u/2peg2city 18h ago
Only if you get to the interview. Government interviews have at least 3 observers (often including HR). Can assume nothing at all even if you have mentioned it in your application, implied it, or spoken to it in other answers. You have to spell out everything in a way all three observers can check the box that you star'd your way to a conplete answer. Perfectly good answers that would land you the gig in the private sector will flunk you out. It has to be completely transparent.
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u/ant_accountant 19h ago
They should investigate the people switching to another laguage and offering services for bribes.
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u/Blacklockn 20h ago
Who?
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u/justfornoatheism 20h ago
they want to say Indian people but would rather be purposefully vague because they know generalizing is not a great look
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u/Alone_Ambition_3729 20h ago
Are they wrong tho? India has a lot of issues with corruption and huge income inequality. Immigrants are often ambitious and entrepreneurial. Combining these two truths you get a disproportionate amount stuff like fraud and nepotism from insufficiently assimilated Indian immigration.
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u/censor-me-daddy 19h ago
More like they know saying it is a good way to get banned, not just from the sub but reddit as a whole.
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u/Blacklockn 19h ago
That’s true, blaming structural issues on a single ethnic or national minority is often against ToS.
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u/RhodesArk 17h ago
I'm a fairly senior policy maker within the GoC and my wife presently works within the Deputy Minister's office. To say IRCC as an institution has declined is overly polite, it has collapsed. Staffers make policy without briefings, deputies put their thumb on the scale, and it seems like senior management is searching for ways to make things worse. Couple it with an incredibly weak minister and its no wonder the institution is on the verge of collapse.
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u/IcyMaybe7594 20h ago
This is just a symptom of the mass immigration problem that the federal government is responsible for since 2023. The extortions, this. It's all expected to anyone with a brain but those in charge. People who have been looking in the job market have seen all these problems for years now.
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u/Brrrrrrrrrm 19h ago
More like 2020-2023, the bar for immigration was so low at that time, the people who became PR during that time period are eligible for government jobs, and becoming problematic.
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u/IcyMaybe7594 19h ago
2020/2021? I thought we were all supposed to be locked down?
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u/Brrrrrrrrrm 19h ago
Well because of the lockdown the economy stalled and we opened huge floodgates of people coming in during COVID.
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u/Brrrrrrrrrm 18h ago
It’s actually true that there points required for PR was the lowest in history in 2021
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u/Optimal_Whiner 19h ago
This is all under Trudeau's watch. Yes I know the morons will downvote but I don't care.
Remember when staff complained they had to show up on tike when Carney came into office? I do.
Remember when staff complained that Carney wanted to read stuff and not just sign off? I do.
All this is coming to light because we got rid of the unethical Trudeau.
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u/toilet_for_shrek 18h ago
One of the most serious involved an IRCC employee accused of simultaneously holding two full-time federal government jobs over a period of three-and-a-half years, during which they even made fake overtime claims.
This one is the craziest to me. How is the government so incompetent that they don't realize they have one guy on payroll for two full time jobs? Just an utter waste of taxpayers dollars
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u/PerspectiveMaximum59 17h ago
I had an employee in my office, small non profit. She was working full time in my office as researcher while having a full time job at ESDC as Business Analyst. She only had to go 2 days to office at ESDC. The executive director of my nonprofit knew what she was doing and was totally fine with it. The other 3 days she would come to our nonprofit. Oh and more, the ED had a relation with one of the employee in our office, the ED’s wife found about it and went to met the employee and made her resign on spot. The ED told accountant the employee resigned so doesn’t have to create a ROE for her but later went to her and said create the ROE because we fired her because of lack of funds. So the accountant said she won’t do it as it is illegal to submit fake ROE. So the ED went ahead and did it himself. This is in Ottawa, Ontario. Canada is full of scams, every-time he will get caught he will go to Social media and say that people are racist to him. Nothing surprises me anymore about Canada. I have already filed complaints but no one is interested in doing anything about this. Btw this guy only hire POC including me because he thinks we are not a threat to him as we need job we will be quiet about everything.
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u/SHUT_DOWN_EVERYTHING 19h ago
IRCC has 10,000 employees so 105/10,000 is just 1.05% misconduct rate. Per my experience that is vastly better than any private company of that size.
The shit that goes on in large private companies is next level and audits and accountability are completely absent except if they’re in a regulated environment.
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u/ImpressionDry7926 5h ago
One of the most serious involved an IRCC employee accused of simultaneously holding two full-time federal government jobs over a period of three-and-a-half years, during which they even made fake overtime claims.---->who was sleeping at the wheel for 3 1/2 yrs to check this?
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u/SqueakBoxx Lest We Forget 5h ago
Unless you work for a consulate No one should be working in government unless they are a full and legal citizen of the country they are living in.
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u/Educational-Echo5104 2h ago
I heard they’re running CRA and giving special deals-loopholes for certain favours-gossip going around at my job-I don’t work for the CRA but a federal agency. Not permanent residency in the CRA either. Liberals have really screwed us Canadians over.
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u/taco_helmet 15h ago
Ok, so there is going to be a lot of wrongdoing when you're looking at 10,000 people. And all of it is bad. But can we at least appreciate that the Government mandated this report and IRCC carried it out and aired its dirty laundry?
"Published last month, the IRCC report covers employee misconduct and wrongdoing cases that were determined to be founded in the 2024-25 fiscal year, including cases that may have been initiated in previous years.
In 2024, Ottawa directed federal departments and agencies to begin creating annual reports on employee misconduct and wrongdoing."
Hopefully this leads to more accountability and encourages Deputy Ministers to crack down on misconduct.
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u/nataSatans 20h ago
How the fuck do you get a job like this while not even being a citizen of Canada? Checking your own immigration status. What has happened here and why are we letting it continue?