MPs on the immigration and citizenship committee voted Wednesday not to launch an investigation into allegations that then-Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino’s department backdated government documents in 2020.
“I think it looks like a waste of time,” said Bloc Québécois MP Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe during an immigration committee meeting on Oct. 12. “And I don’t really see a scandal in here.”
The committee voted 6–5 against a motion that would’ve launched a study into “allegations of potential obstruction of justice” against Mendicino’s immigration department in November 2020.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, who obtained the internal emails through Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) legislation, Mendicino’s former department misled a federal judge hearing a trademark infringement case to believe that the “College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants Act” came into effect on Nov. 20 rather than its actual date of coming into force on Dec. 9….