This report into the breakdown of the Canadian refugee system by the former director of policy at IRCC and a former member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada should be a major scandal. In a sane country, heads would roll, starting with the ministers who oversaw this catastrophe. Key takeaways: as the Liberal's lax border and asylum policy led to a flood of claims, the agency that hears the claims adopted a short-cut to deal with the volume: it effectively rubber stamped tens of thousands of applications without a hearing to assess their credibility. As the author notes, global asylum flows are sensitive to approval rates in different countries, and the incredibly high approval rate in Canada (80% compared to European countries with approval rates half that), means we have become a magnet for bogus asylum claims -- which are then waived in without a hearing, leading to more claims. Rinse and repeat. It's a disaster will ripple through our country for generations, as the bogus claimants from this cohort are almost certainly here to stay. They and their families have defrauded their way into a permanent home here. The government let them do it, and is still doing nothing to stop it. A start would be to do retrospective quality checks to see how many claims were wrongly approved under this rubber-stamp policy, and if enough are identified to indicate a problem, to re-do them and remove protection for cases of fraud. But that would be an admission of failure by the government, and no government wants to admit it willfully turned a blind eye to mass fraud. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…