Worse yet, the system didn’t have the resources to vet all these people. Among one million foreign students with work permits in 2023-2024, Federal Auditor General Karen Hogan recently found 150,000 cases of fraud —  but investigated only 4,000, and marked 1,600 as inconclusive because the student in question did not respond. That lack of resources meant that fraud goes unpunished, leaving Canadian taxpayers and workers paying the price: costs to support newcomers who shouldn’t be here and jobs that Canadian workers would otherwise have filled.