Subhead:One Canada Border Service Agency executive compared the agency’s struggle with deporting foreign criminals to constantly scooping water out of a bathtub while it continues to fill up.#   Canada has 33,000 foreign fugitives on its soil, all with active warrants for detention and deportation, including many with criminal records, and the agency responsible for removing them has set a target that falls 13,000 short, according to federal documents reported by Blacklock’s Reporter. A Privy Council briefing note dated February 3, titled Advancing Border Security, confirmed the Canada Border Services Agency removed over 18,000 inadmissible people in the last fiscal year — the most in a decade — and was funded to reach 20,000 removals annually over each of the next two fiscal years. To do so, the CBSA hired approximately 30 additional frontline personnel. Aaron McCrorie, CBSA’s vice-president, told the Commons public safety committee in December that the backlog resembles an unwinnable plumbing problem. “I liken our inventories to a bathtub,” he said. “We are constantly scooping water out of that bathtub but the bathtub is filling up.”​Read More