Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner is criticizing the immigration department for changing how its datasets are made public, saying it amounts to censorship.
The Conservative shadow immigration minister says the Liberal government has admitted to “purposefully censoring” immigration data published by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
“The Liberal government just admitted that they have purposefully withheld raw immigration data from the public, and intend on replacing it with heavily edited information that will likely be packaged with Liberal spin,” Rempel Garner said in an Aug. 11 statement.
Public health policy makers, labour force analysts, and housing developers are among those who depend on the IRCC’s immigration data and expect the data to be accurate and timely, Rempel Garner says….