
Secret Canada: The 'black hole' of Canada's immigration system
The Decibel
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The IRCC's Increase in Access Requests
Immigration, refugees and citizenship Canada does the most access information business in the government. They receive 80% of all federal access information requests or A-tips as we call them. Over the last decades, IRCC has seen a 763% increase in access requests from roughly 20,000 a year in 2012 to 177,000 in 2022. Tom Sunkar: There's a lot of requests here. Like how many people are doing what Sunkar is doing and actually filing these requests? A lot of people.
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