It’s a perfect example of why many Canadians have little faith in the federal government’s ability to keep them safe.

It started with an order paper question by Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner.

She asked the Liberal government of Prime Minister Mark Carney in September how often Canadian citizenship is granted or denied to those with criminal records.

The response was that the government has no idea in an answer that was a word salad of non-information.

To wit:

“Due to data limitations, the department is unable to report on the number of applications for which an applicant has a criminal record that (was) received, approved, denied, received but … still awaiting a decision, nor is the department able to provide a breakdown by type of crime which the department d

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