Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault’s department misrepresented inspection claims under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, records show. Of 2,139 “inspections” on migrant labour it reported last year fewer than a tenth were actual random, in-person checks in the workplace.

“Eighty percent were completed remotely,” the department wrote in an Inquiry Of Ministry tabled in the Commons. “In the current fiscal year the department has assumed a more balanced approach to conducting active inspections.”