Secret Canada: The 'black hole' of Canada's immigration system
The Decibel
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The Rise of Immigration Applications in Canada
In 2022, the Privacy Act was quietly changed to allow anyone in the world to file a request. You don't have any kind of status in Canada whatsoever. And there's no reason why you can't file a Privacy Act request for your immigration file because it's ultimately information about yourself. If we use that one in five metric and consider the way that information requests are growing currently, IRCC would be facing 926,000 requests a year by 2024.
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