CANADA
CBC News
By John Lancaster, CBC News Posted: Dec 01, 2016
Canada’s borders have become less porous in the wake of a CBC News investigation that revealed a major security gap in the way passengers were being screened before being allowed into Canada.
In the past 12 months since new screening measures came into effect on Nov. 21, 2015, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) apprehended 3,067 people with outstanding criminal arrest warrants at border crossings.
In the previous 12 months, before the changes came into effect, the CBSA caught just 556 alleged fugitives. …
Priest accused of rape
In 2013 the southwestern Ontario woman demanded answers as to why a Nigerian priest she had accused of rape in 2004 was able to get back into Canada nine years later. Father Anthony Onyenagada left Canada before police could arrest him in 2004.
Police assured the alleged victim that Onyenagada would be arrested if he ever tried to return, because there were Canada-wide warrants out for his arrest.
But in 2013 the priest did return to attend a Catholic church event near London, Ont. Again, by the time police realized he had returned to Canada, he had slipped away a second time.
The CBC News investigation revealed federal government officials had granted Onyenagada a visa to enter Canada in 2013, and when he arrived at Pearson International Airport he breezed through customs because border agents didn’t screen him through CPIC.
Now, with the changes in policy, a simple scan of his passport would result in him being arrested and handed over to police for prosecution on the 2004 charges.
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