Canada paid nearly $200M to visa company previously based in a tax haven and linked to China

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Canada has awarded at least $183 million to VFS Global, a company previously based in Mauritius and backed by a large Chinese state-owned investment fund.

When Tobias Denskus, a professor of international development in Sweden, applied to come to Canada in February 2019 to renew his permanent residency it wasn’t just the “bad experience” that concerned him.

“I felt quite sorry for those who experienced this for the first time, for example, for a study abroad or work visa, that their first interaction with Canada as a country is actually through a rather peculiar corporate entity,” Denskus said.

“It is in the nature of every high-volume customer-facing services business that customer complaints do occur,” Brun said. “We respond to 24 customer queries a minute on an average with a complaint resolution score of 99%.”Story continues below advertisement“Earlier media reports allege that VFS Global has a Chinese, German or American ownership. This information is completely wrong and based on incorrect information without proper fact-checking.

In November 2012, the company won a $51-million contract under the former Conservative government of Stephen Harper. And since 2017, the company has been awarded an additional $132-million worth of contracts, according to information listed on the federal procurement website.Former CSIS director Ward Elcock told Global News that any connections between VFS Global, a company that receives significant funding from China, should be closely reviewed by Ottawa.

 

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Why is Canada outsourcing resources to foreign entities? When was this ever a good idea? If you respond by saying it saves money get your head on straight. Canadians need to have the jobs and the security and the education that keeping our resources in country

'Immigration and security experts' pretend Gauntanamo(torture camp) Bay does not exist. Along with millions of 'totally not racists' Conservatives who believe in law and order. 'Consequences' they cry!

In all fairness there are a lot of similarities with China and Canada , for instance they both start with 'C' and end with 'A'

More federal incompetence 🇨🇦 Canada contracts out VISA services - which collects the most sensitive and private personal details to a Chinese state-controlled investment fund

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What a fucking joke 🤡

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