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Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport

Vance Badawey

  • Member of Parliament
  • Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport
  • Liberal
  • Niagara Centre
  • Ontario
  • Voting Attendance: 67%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $88,875.84

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Context: House Hansard - 217 - Jun/20/23
Mr. Vance Badawey
  • Jun/20/23 10:16:44 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, once again I want to thank the member for bringing up this issue. I respect his comments very much and I thank him for that. The IRCC thoroughly investigated its South Africa office and determined that filtering applications by race could not happen, given the protocols, as I said earlier, that are in place. First, the IRCC does not collect information on the race of applicants. South Africa's caseload goes through our standard global intake process to assess eligibility and risk. We shifted to electronic submissions during the pandemic, so, as I said earlier, there are no new paper applications coming in and the offices have no means by which to filter out digital applications. As in every other processing office abroad, South Africa's caseload is reviewed by local staff from different racial and ethnic backgrounds who work on a rotation system. Their decisions are made in tandem with Canada-based officials. Finally, the work to ensure that processes are fair for all is something that we as a government—
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