Immigration

During Statements by Members, a Conservative member raised the topic of immigration. She said the Prime Minister’s claim of taking back control of the immigration system is hard to believe, citing the admission of large numbers of non-citizen temporary foreign workers while young Canadians face difficulty finding jobs and housing. She also raised concerns about fraud in student visas, people with criminal records being allowed to stay, millions of people whose whereabouts the government has lost track of, and visas issued to terrorists. She called on the Prime Minister to dismiss the immigration minister and fix the system. No other members spoke on the topic in the sampled statements.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .

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Michelle Rempel Garner, Calgary Nose Hill

Conservative
“The Prime Minister has ruined Canada's immigration system. He let in too many foreign workers while young Canadians cannot find jobs or homes. He allowed fraud in student visas, let criminals stay, lost track of millions of people, and gave visas to terrorists. He needs to fire the immigration minister and fix the system.”
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister claims to have taken back control of the immigration system, but that is really hard to believe. That is because in the past year, the Prime Minister has allowed the government to let in hundreds of thousands of new non-citizen temporary foreign workers while Canadian kids cannot find jobs or a place to rent. The Liberals have allowed massive, scandalous fraud to run rampant in the non-citizen student visa program. They have turned a blind eye to non-citizens convicted of serious crimes in Canada, who are getting sweetheart deals to avoid deportation. They have lost track of millions of non-citizens who have no legal reason to be in Canada, and they are issuing visas to terrorists. The immigration minister told us she meets with the Prime Minister on a weekly basis to discuss her file. That must mean that she is following his orders. There is no other plausible reason that a minister with this many failures under her belt would still have her job. The reality is that the buck stops with the Prime Minister. He needs to fire her and fix the system, not claim that everything is okay when it is not.

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