Feds Must Answer for Security Lapse Involving 469 Missing Foreign Criminals: Tory MP

Conservative MP Raquel Dancho, chair of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, speaks at a committee meeting in Ottawa on Aug. 16, 2022. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

The federal government must address how 469 foreign criminals facing deportation, including those convicted of multiple sexual offences, have gone missing, says Conservative public safety critic Raquel Dancho.

“The Minister of Public Safety needs to explain to Canadians how and why they allowed multiple violent offenders who were serving sentences for murder and sexual offences to be knowingly released into our communities,” Dancho said on Twitter on Oct. 15 after the news first broke in the Globe and Mail.