Tories Demand Answers After Pakistani Man on UK Sex-Offender List Allowed Into Canada

Tories Demand Answers After Pakistani Man on UK Sex-Offender List Allowed Into Canada
Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner holds a news conference in Ottawa on Feb. 21, 2025. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
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Conservatives are criticizing federal immigration procedures after a Pakistani man was granted a Canadian visitor’s visa in 2023 despite being registered as a sex offender in the UK for sexually abusing his underage niece.

Tory MP Michelle Rempel Garner criticized Justice Minister Sean Fraser for allowing “a publicly-listed incestuous child sex abuser into Canada” during Fraser’s tenure as immigration minister under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.