New report warns Canada’s paper-based refugee fast track may be prone to abuse by terror-linked and transnational fraud networks.
OTTAWA — A sweeping new border control investigation has revealed that since 2019, Canada’s refugee hearing board has been quietly accepting tens of thousands of asylum claims without ever questioning the migrants, effectively rubber-stamping applications from some of the most dangerous countries on earth — Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran — through a paper-based process that is wide open to fraud and bypasses the security screening architecture designed to protect the nation.
