Immigration Minister Lena Diab says she wants her department to start tracking the number of people on temporary visas departing Canada.
Diab said there is currently no simple way for federal bodies such as the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to monitor the number of temporary residents leaving the country. She said she wants to change that with the help of digital tools.
“There’s a number [of] countries around the world that do track those. And I believe we need to also be doing that,” the minister told The Canadian Press in a recent phone interview. “Did we have the capabilities to do that before? No. Should we? I think yes, and that is something that you will see us working toward,” she said, as reported by the media outlet on Jan. 31….