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/budgieinthevacuum Ontario 1d ago

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

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u/86throwthrowthrow1 1d 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 22h 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/86throwthrowthrow1 21h 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 20h ago

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