Over 3,300 Foreign Nationals Flagged as Security Risks Allowed Into Canada From 2014-2019: Audit

A motorist scans a Nexus card as another speaks with a Canada Border Services Agency officer at a primary inspection booth at the Douglas-Peace Arch border crossing in Surrey, B.C., on Feb. 5, 2020. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

The federal Immigration Department between 2014 and 2019 allowed entry into Canada to over 3,300 foreign nationals flagged by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) as security risks, according to an internal federal audit.

During the five-year span studied in the audit, Immigration Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) gave over 7,670 migration applicants a “non-favourable” recommendation, the CBSA wrote in its “Evaluation of the Immigration National Security Screening Program,” published in February.