Justice Minister Sean Fraser, who was in charge of immigration during some of the years Auditor General Karen Hogan found instances of fraud in Canada’s international student program, said with hindsight, he would have acted sooner to fundamentally change it.
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Fraser was immigration minister from October 2021 to July 2023, succeeded in the role by Miller until March of last year. Diab, a former provincial immigration minister in Nova Scotia, took over the portfolio in May 2025, following a brief tenure by Montreal MP Rachel Bendayan.
In a report made public on Monday, Hogan wrote that she found “critical weaknesses” in the international student program’s integrity controls, saying the Immigration Department did not investigate or follow up on a large number of “high-risk” cases.
Hogan found some 800 cases between 2018 and 2023 where students were able to get into Canada on bogus documents or by providing misinformation, with more than half of them able to stay by renewing student permits or applying for other immigration status.
She also found that, out of about 150,000 cases where there was potential fraud, the department followed up on only 2,000 of them per year in 2023 and 2024, citing a lack of funding.
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