Canada’s immigration department does not collect information on how many migrants are in the country illegally, Deputy Immigration Minister Harpreet Kochhar says.
“We do count through Stats Canada, the census, but we would not have any estimation of those who do not have a particular status in Canada,” Kochhar testified at the House of Commons Immigration Committee on Oct. 21, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
Kochhar was responding to questioning from Conservative MP Costas Menegakis, who had asked about the “most recent internal estimate that the government has on the total number of individuals living in Canada without legal status.” …