00:34:54.000abacus all right so david coletto runs abacus data they do a lot of political polling and he
00:34:59.580says they use a flawed model they over poll liberals they under poll conservatives so
00:35:03.420naturally you're going to get these kinds of results in polls and he said the difference
00:35:07.980is between five and ten percentage points in nearly every poll and i have never seen
00:35:15.680not in my entire professional career i remember i used to work in radio right so
00:35:20.840the ratings in radio work a lot like polling where you take a sampling of the people who
00:35:28.560listen to whatever radio station and if there's a huge variance in a short period of time you
00:35:34.800chalk that up to a glitch that's not real and then they just come back to normal in
00:35:39.280the next couple of uh next couple of ratings periods there's no way this happens
00:35:46.140we're living in a simulation for goodness sakes okay so apparently there is a problem
00:35:55.660getting some temporary foreign students out of the country they don't want to go
00:35:59.280they've been holding rallies in major cities across the country these past couple of weekends
00:36:04.340even though they came into the country with the understanding that they would have to leave they
00:36:09.580came in as temporary foreign students. So from 620 CKRM in Regina, Deputy Minister says Immigration
00:36:20.920Department fixing integrity issues cited by Auditor General. The Auditor General's name is
00:36:26.460Karen Hogan, and here's what she said today in committee. Introduced a new tool to verify
00:36:32.500acceptance letters and had processes to identify potential fraud and student noncompliance.
00:36:39.580It did not effectively investigate or follow-up when risks were flagged.
00:36:45.940For example, in 2023 and 2024, designated learning institutions identified over 153,000 potential cases of non-compliance with study permits,
00:36:58.000but the department investigated only about 4,000 of them.
00:37:03.280Most cases could not be closed because the students did not respond to the department's
00:37:08.080requests for more information. Further, the department's fraud detection activities
00:37:14.720identified 800 cases of fraud after permits were approved. No follow-up occurred on these cases.
00:37:22.800In most instances, individuals went on to apply for other immigration permits while in Canada.
00:37:30.000More than half of those applications have since been approved.
00:37:34.880Our audit also identified an opportunity for better collaboration with the Canada Border
00:37:39.680Services Agency. We found that the immigration department did not collaborate with the agency
00:37:45.440to identify whether students with expired permits had left Canada. Using the immigration department's
00:37:52.320available data, we worked with the Canada Border Services Agency and found that only about 40%
00:37:59.120of the 39,500 students required to leave in 2024 had in fact left the country.
00:38:08.240Ultimately, the department needs to act on the information it already has to address integrity
00:38:14.240concerns in the program, including collaborating with the Canada Border Services Agency.
00:38:20.480This is equally important once students are in Canada and applying for additional permits.
00:38:26.240okay i just want to remind you guys that person there karen hogan she's not a politician she's
00:38:34.420not a liberal she's not a conservative she's the auditor general she speaks in facts
00:38:40.560that's what's happening in our country 40 percent of the temporary foreign students
00:38:48.260up to 2024 required to leave the country left the other 60 are still here presumably working at tim
00:38:58.680hortons your kid can't get a job for a reason man still oh we're fixing the immigration don't worry
00:39:05.760about it nah really immigration refugees and citizenship canada should not allow budget
00:39:12.960constraints to limit how many investigations are done when a student visa is flagged for
00:39:17.280potential violations from the deputy minister uh who told the house of commons committee today
00:39:24.380ted gallivant was at the immigration committee following a march 23rd report by the auditor
00:39:29.780general which found critical weaknesses in integrity controls of student visas in our
00:39:35.020management action plan we're making a commitment to review all of the cases where it's confirmed
00:39:40.060that it's not a discrepancy but actual fraud we need to take action and we'll have to sort out
00:39:45.320the budget implications after the fact, Gallivan said. Now, I want you guys to understand, for
00:39:49.180those of you who are not familiar with how government departments work, whether it's
00:39:53.740provincial or federal, the deputy minister is the one who's actually in charge. That's the person
00:39:59.940who runs that department. They're a lifelong bureaucrat. They probably worked their way up
00:40:04.320from the mailroom, and now they're the deputy minister. The minister is supposed to be
00:40:11.820responsible ultimately. But the minister is a politician. The minister gets shuffled from
00:40:16.340portfolio to portfolio to portfolio all the time. One day you're the defense minister. The next day
00:40:22.500you're the heritage minister. Do you really know the portfolio? No. You're just playing the role
00:40:30.920on television. The person who actually runs it is the deputy minister. Auditor General Karen
00:40:38.860hogan's report found thousands of potentially problematic student visas were not being
00:40:43.180investigated including more than 150 000 cases between just between 2023 and 2024 of international
00:40:51.900students potentially not complying with the terms of their visa in many cases that means not attending
00:40:57.640the school they were accepted to for which the visa was issued yep and again i bet you you go do
00:41:05.160a sweep at Tim Hortons or any convenience store and say, hey, are you a temporary foreign student
00:41:11.640in the country illegally? They go running out the door. So for a very long time now,
00:41:21.620the Canadian military has been woeful in terms of new recruitment, right? We've been way down
00:41:27.600in terms of how many soldiers, how many members the Canadian forces actually has.
00:41:33.300so this cbc story says military enrollment rebounds but canadian forces still thousands short
00:41:40.980of the 2017 target so let's see how much it rebounded the number of people who enrolled
00:41:47.560in the canadian military both full-time and part-time and remember this is now a new immigration
00:41:51.720thing where hey if you're a experienced military member in some other country and you want to come
00:41:56.580to canada you can do so you can slip in if you apply to be in the canadian military like their
00:42:02.520allegiance will be to Canada. Anyway, the enrollment has surged in the last fiscal year,
00:42:11.340but despite the milestone of the size of the armed forces has yet to reach targets set almost
00:42:15.960a decade ago. Defense Minister David McGinty announced today that 7,310 applicants were
00:42:22.700accepted into the regular force last year, surpassing the benchmark set by the Department
00:42:27.280of National Defense. It's apparently the highest number of people coming in off the street in more
00:42:31.740than three decades were coming in from out of country.
00:42:35.320So James Bazan is the conservative defense critic and in committee today.
00:52:59.320on crow child theo flurry is going to be there jamie soleil jason levine uh got to thank jason
00:53:05.260for his help in putting this whole thing together may 23rd is the next one in toronto where dan
00:53:12.580hartman will be detective helen gruse roger hodkinson dr hodkinson dr chris shoemaker
00:53:18.940dr david speaker that's going to be a good one if you can make it to that
00:53:24.320uh swift current tonight chris barber and jason levine i guess it's too late to tell you that
00:53:31.140though saturday may 2nd in huntsville ontario uh dan hartman will be there dr david speaker and dean
00:53:38.020rainey so again you can look more detail for more detail on the website so support sean.ca
00:53:45.960and here's another this this came out a few days ago but this tied in nicely to this story
00:53:53.320Hockey coach admits using a false COVID-19 vaccine certificate to enter China for the Olympics.
00:54:03.540From Switzerland, Switzerland's Patrick Fisher said he made a serious mistake.
00:54:13.700In a statement last Monday, Fisher said he made a serious mistake in this matter by traveling to Beijing with the Switzerland men's team using false paperwork.
00:54:23.320I'm very sorry if I've disappointed people with the situation.
00:54:27.100I was in an extraordinary personal crisis because I didn't want to be vaccinated.
00:54:31.420At the same time, I certainly didn't want to let my team down at the Olympics.
00:54:36.640So why did he come out and admit it now?
00:54:39.400Swiss public broadcaster SRF said, oh, it confronted Fisher with documents showing he was fined 39,000 Swiss francs by local authorities in 2023 for document forgery after buying the certificate on social media.
00:54:53.840SRF said he went public with his admission shortly after.
01:06:14.020And so that probably is going to make it to court because Patel is not going to back down unless some whistleblower actually comes out to the public and said, no, this is all true.