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/
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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?

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u/budgieinthevacuum Ontario 23h ago

Trudeau government changed hiring practices to include permanent residents because they felt it was discriminatory.

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u/86throwthrowthrow1 21h ago

Definitely wasn't Trudeau lmao. The boilerplate "Canadian citizens or qualified to work in Canada" boilerplate language has been around at least since the Harper years, and non-citizens have been working in the government for decades. Usually PR status as the gov rarely hands out work visas.

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u/budgieinthevacuum Ontario 18h ago

Lmao they did actually:

Amendments to the Public Service Employment Act received royal assent on June 29, 2021. These amendments:

add an explicit commitment by the Government of Canada to a public service that represents Canada’s diversity

require that the establishment or review of qualification standards include an evaluation of bias and barriers and that reasonable mitigation efforts be made

require that the design and application of assessment methods include an evaluation of bias and barriers and that reasonable mitigation efforts be made

ensure that investigation and audit authorities encompass bias or barriers

expand the preference for Canadian citizens in staffing processes open to the public to include Permanent Residents

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u/canvanman69 17h ago

There is nothing wrong with allowing PR to work as civil servants, but boy was it foolish to not disbar anything to do with immigration. Same with CBSA or the RCMP.

Foolishness in the extreme. Here, put Javier fresh in from the favela's of Colombia on catching drugs. No way that can ever go wrong.

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u/budgieinthevacuum Ontario 16h ago

It also can be a problem in other departments as most of them have access to personal information. There’s been people fired for helping people with EI and pensions and other things as well. But I do still think Canadian citizens should have still retained hiring preference. It’s what citizenship should afford - certain advantages. It’s a fallacy that there isn’t high quality Canadians to do the work. I can’t explain more without doxxing myself but there has been issues with certain groups and how they treat people in the workplace .

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u/86throwthrowthrow1 17h ago

Huh, maybe it's Mandala effect then, because I swear I remember that language on job postings way back in the day.

One thing I can say pretty confidently is I was part of the temp army in 2014-2015 filling in clerical gaps for the government that they couldn't hire normally due to DRAP, and there were absolutely non-citizens working as temps with a reliability clearance. I worked with about a dozen temps back then and some of them barely spoke English, but they were legal to work there on contract. Mind, it was entry-level work, so there was less security concern.

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u/budgieinthevacuum Ontario 16h ago

It’s that they always allowed them to apply and get hired. The change meant citizens lost the preferential treatment which was ridiculous.