Questions and responses 45th Parliament, 1st session May 26, 2025, to present

With regard to findings of inadmissibility for misrepresentation under section 40 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, since 2014 to 2025 to date: (a) how many findings of misrepresentation under section 40(1) have been made by Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada each year, broken down by type of application (e.g., study permits, work permits, visitor visas, sponsorship applications); (b) how many findings of misrepresentation under section 40(1)(b) have been made each year, and how many were subject to ministerial review under section 40(2)(b); (c) how many cases of misrepresentation under section 40(1) resulted in a five-year inadmissibility ban as per section 40(2)(a), broken down by year; (d) what are the most common forms of misrepresentation detected under section 40(1)(a), including falsified documents, fraudulent job offers, and concealment of prior refusals, broken down by year; (e) how many cases of misrepresentation under section 40(1) each year have been linked to third­party representatives, consultants, or agents, and what measures have been put in place to address this issue; (f) how many removal orders under section 40(2)(a) were issued each year, and what measures are in place to enforce them; (g) what was the geographic distribution, by country of origin, of misrepresentation findings under section 40(1) each year; and (h) how many appeals or challenges to findings of misrepresentation under section 40(1) have been made each year, and how many of these resulted in findings being overturned?

With regard to the Canada Border Services Agency, since January 1, 2016, and the list of those who have been determined to be inadmissible to Canada and are the subject of an active Canada-wide arrest warrant, issued pursuant to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act: (a) what are the details of individuals on the up-to-date wanted list, including, for each, (i) their name, (ii) the reason for their inadmissibility, (iii) their immigration status, (iv) the number of days they have been on the list; (b) for those who have been on this wanted list previously, what were their outcomes, broken down by (i) name, (ii) date of arrest, (iii) how long they were wanted by the government prior to their arrests; and (c) how many of those on the wanted list have been on this list for over one year, and what are the details, including the (i) total number, (ii) breakdown by year?

With regard to findings of medical inadmissibility under section 38(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, broken down by year since 2015: (a) what is the number of applicants who received a Procedural Fairness Letter citing a concern of medical inadmissibility, broken down by (i) ground of inadmissibility (danger to public health, danger to public safety, or excessive demand on health or social services), (ii) immigration stream (economic class, family class, temporary resident, or other); (b) of the applicants in (a), what is the number of applicants ultimately found inadmissible following that process, broken down by (i) ground of inadmissibility, (ii) immigration stream; (c) of the applicants in (a) who were ultimately found admissible, what is the number for each, broken down by (i) ground of inadmissibility, (ii) immigration stream, (iii) basis for that outcome (mitigation plan accepted, updated medical evidence, or other); (d) what was the excessive demand cost threshold applied in each year, including the (i) annual figure, (ii) five-year cumulative figure; and (e) how many applicants were exempted from an excessive demand assessment under the categories set out in section 38(2) of the Act, broken down by exemption category (protected persons, refugees, sponsored spouses or common-law partners, or dependent children)?