{"id":75430,"date":"2016-05-05T04:04:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T08:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=75430"},"modified":"2016-05-05T04:04:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T08:04:52","slug":"minister-mccallum-responds-auditor-generals-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/05\/05\/minister-mccallum-responds-auditor-generals-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister McCallum responds to the Auditor General\u2019s Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51836\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51836\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/john-mccallum-facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51836\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/john-mccallum-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"Liberal MP John McCallum (Facebook photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/john-mccallum-facebook.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/john-mccallum-facebook-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liberal MP John McCallum (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/McCallumj1\/\">Facebook photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ottawa \u2013 The Hon. John McCallum, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, today issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, I welcome the findings of the Auditor General\u2019s audit of the Citizenship Program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada accepts the Auditor General\u2019s specific recommendations, and will work quickly to implement them. My department has already made a number of improvements to better identify cases where there is the potential for citizenship fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBill C-6 would improve the Citizenship Act by giving citizenship officers the authority to seize fraudulent documents. This addresses one of the Auditor General\u2019s recommendations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs well, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has improved procedures on dealing with applicants using addresses flagged as high-risk and implemented better guidance for citizenship officers. It has also undertaken work with CBSA and the RCMP to improve information sharing which will be completed in December 2016, and put in place the new Program Integrity Framework to identify and manage fraud risks in the Citizenship program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have thoroughly reviewed all cases flagged by the Office of the Auditor General to determine if citizenship fraud may have occurred. As a result, we\u2019ve opened investigations toward possible citizenship revocation from about a dozen individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIRCC has a number of different ways of detecting and preventing fraud, in addition to those the Auditor General focused upon. As well, we are continuously looking for ways to improve fraud detection and prevention processes in all of our programs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa \u2013 The Hon. John McCallum, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, today issued the following statement: \u201cAs Minister of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":51836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[3934,5300],"class_list":["post-75430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-john-mccallum","tag-mccallum","mauthors-government-of-canada-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}