Zu den Fehlverhalten kanadischer Einwanderungsbeamter gehörte die Ausübung von zwei Vollzeitjobs und die Bevorzugung eines romantischen Partners: Bericht

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>Ten cases were related to a breach of a code of conduct, said the report.

>In 2023, an investigation was launched into allegations of wrongdoing by an executive at the department’s Ottawa headquarters, which was later expanded to include two additional executives.

>Investigators found that first executive granted preferential treatment to a subordinate, who was also a romantic partner, to ensure she got a promotion, that she was granted overtime and a position was offered to one of her relatives.

>Another executive shared resumés of various people with subordinates, who felt pressured to hire some of them; one of that executive’s family members was hired as a result. The executive even directed subordinates to hire someone referred by another executive, and pressured them to grant that person a job at a specific level of pay.

>A third executive asked subordinates to hire another executive’s niece in exchange for that person hiring their family member, though “the exchange of hirings” ultimately did not materialize.

>In another case, an employee had a public blog where they identified themselves as a Canadian diplomat and used their position title for outside interests. They discussed aspects of their work at the embassy, including private conversations with staff and views on the people and government of the country they were posted to. The person expressed political opinions that could potentially “damage” the Immigration Department’s reputation.

>Twelve people were found to have breached the department’s directives by leveraging their role and system access privileges to obtain information to check or request the status of files for themselves, family, friends, and/or acquaintances, and/or to check the status of files out of curiosity.

>One employee accessed the immigration case management system on four occasions to locate an estranged family member and track information on a person against whom they pursued legal action.

>The report identified 22 incidents of harassment, violence and disrespectful behaviours. Five employees displayed behaviour that posed a risk to the image of Canada and the department in the international context, including “misrepresentation, inappropriate, racist and discriminatory comments.” One engaged in sexual harassment toward a colleague while another touched a co-worker inappropriately.

>All the 105 substantiated cases resulted in various types of administrative and disciplinary actions against them, ranging from letters of expectations to corrective training, suspensions up to 30 days, written reprimands and termination.

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Shocking.