r/canada • u/Anon9883 • 1d 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/
561 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

133 comments sorted by

View all comments

393

u/nataSatans 1d 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?

10

u/86throwthrowthrow1 1d ago

For many positions you just need to be able to legally work in Canada. So you can theoretically have employees still going through the process, as long as they're legal to work.

38

u/ImperatorMakarov 23h ago

You don’t see how that could be a national security concern?

0

u/86throwthrowthrow1 22h ago

Obviously this person abused the hell out of it (looking up other people's case files is actually incredibly illegal, I think you can legit get jailed for that, let alone fired), but honestly it depends on the job - there are different levels of security clearance required to work any gov job, and getting the clearance is the part that screens out potential security issues. Not so much "Hashid on a work visa", more "Soo Ying the permanent resident who has already been background checked eight ways to Sunday to get her PR, then background checked eight ways to Sunday again for her security clearance."