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The government fast-tracked refugees, with very little vetting, from the most dangerous places on Earth
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Now that the immigration system — in particular, as it relates to refugees — has come under the harsh light of public scrutiny, Justice Minister Sean Fraser is lashing out at its critics: “We are dealing with, in some instances, some of the most vulnerable people in the world,” he said Wednesday, implying that anyone who touches the issue is a bully.
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But the Liberal handling of the immigration file — including Fraser’s personal handling of it from 2021 to 2023 — gives Canadians plenty of reason to question the asylum system. Immigration officials for years have been mass-approving refugee applications from some of the most dangerous countries in the world by simply rubber-stamping paperwork without an in-person hearing. Untold numbers of fraudsters, terrorists and criminals now have protected person status in Canada, giving them access to generous state benefits and a much higher bar to deportation if convicted of a crime.
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A full narrative of this disaster was put together in a January C.D. Howe report by James Yousif, a former immigration tribunal adjudicator and policy director for the government. In 2016, the federal refugee tribunal began getting........