Cabinet ministers will testify before a House of Commons committee following a report that a human trafficker was issued a new passport after surrendering it under court-imposed release conditions.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller and Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc will appear before the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration by Dec. 18. During a meeting on Nov. 16, MPs on the committee unanimously voted in favour of a motion to invite them to testify.
The motion follows a CBC report about Thesingarasan Rasiah, an admitted human trafficker, being reissued a passport after surrendering his original one as part of a court order. Rasiah, a Montreal resident, was charged in April 2021 for smuggling a Sri Lankan national from the United States into Canada. He pleaded guilty and surrendered his passport as a condition of his release….