The Saskatchewan government believes an employee of the Ministry of Immigration and Career Training inappropriately accessed the files of 40 applicants, in connection with a suspected “illegal immigration scheme,” according to a report late last month from Saskatchewan’s information and privacy commissioner.
In February, the ministry asked the commissioner to investigate a privacy breach it had discovered during an internal investigation of an unnamed employee in the immigration services branch.
According to the commissioner, the province had discovered that the employee had inappropriately accessed the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program (SINP) files of 40 clients. The government suspected the worker was “sharing [client
