Ghost Immigrants: Paying for Canadian citizenship - The Fifth Estate

Immigration consultant Sunny Wang orchestrated one of the largest immigration scams in Canadian history. The twist in this tale isn’t that the people were trying to sneak into the country; it’s that they were sneaking out, pretending to be Canadian residents while having no intention of living here.
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[@broderickgriffey-krist3188]

That lady ain’t a victim she’s a participant. Agreed. Deserves jail time and BIG FINES.

[@crypton_8l87]

but y'all have that weakness for that one

[@people_are_sheep]

The predictable failure of multiculturalism. The only way to save western nations is to get rid of all the old political parties and install nationalist parties.

[@sjmcn500]

This is another example of white collar crime getting a slap on the wrist. Dude makes $10 million dollars illegally and is only fined $900,000 (9 percent of his proceeds of crime) then is sentenced to 7 years in jail and serves only 2. Somebody passes a bogus $300 bank cheque and gets more time than that. It's nice to see that something was actually done but this guy should have been deported with all his assets seized. If he did this in China he would be spending the rest of his life in a prison labour camp.

[@JohnnyLawrence293]

His job since immigrating to Canada has been to scam the Canadian immigration system, he should lose his citizenship and be deported.

[@79tazman]

It let's others know that Canada is light on fraud. come to Canada and do immigration fraud because Canada don't care

[@dereklonewolf9011]

He would not be punished in China, they prob encouraged him 🤣🤣🤣

[@sjmcn500]

@Sheila Feng So all of Chinese living in China are 'rich'? I don't think so. Just like there are poor people in China, there are poor people in 'white countries'. It's called reality. Your comment is ignorant and racist and makes you just sound like an idiot. Stay in China.

[@kingcomments]

good, we don't need people like that on this planet.

[@KDCO92]

I really hope the government also opens their eyes on companies marketing birthright citizenship in Canada. Apparently, some companies in China literally market the fact that Canadians receive subsidized education and healthcare to pregnant women. These women go deliver in Canada, return to China and 18 years later send their kids to receive subsidized university education, on the expense of Canadian tax payers (which their parents never were)!

[@neilmac3731]

Are you angry because your immigrant parents never had enough brains to do the same thing? Or was it your grandparents who were immigrants??because we all are im 4th generation canadian....im Scottish i sure hope you are aboriginal if not shut up

[@betilynedubala5194]

Basically milking the government. What an audacity!

[@annahui9919]

I totally agreed, Mr Wang should deported, he is not entitle to live in our Canadian soil. our Canadian government is too nice.

[@tejesheconomics4072]

😂 chinas rich send them to get easy citizenship not free Healthcare…..the guys who come to Canada are very rich

[@johnburns8660]

@@tejesheconomics4072 How many Canadian passports in Hong Kong?

[@bertontee]

The guy's Canadian Citizenship should be revoked! A disgraced!

[@pc5826]

After serving his jail sentence, Canada should should revoke his citizenship or residence status, deport him and ban him from entry to Canada forever.

[@n_adoui]

they can't revoke his citizenship, he's chinese so he had to remove his chinese citizenship to get a canadian one, therefore if canada revokes hers he will be stateless, which illegal internationally

[@n_adoui]

@ghgg this law does not exists to protect criminals, it's there to protect everyone !

[@yashwantmineKexpert]

Also , recover what he earned illegaly. the fine was lenient .

[@pc5826]

@@n_adoui Of course citizenship can be revoked. You heard of stateless persons? They do not hold passports, but a document called Certificate of Identity.

[@pc5826]

@ghgg Crime does pay.

[@Schopenhauerscn]

What a disgrace! This guy should be stripped of his Canadian citizenship.

[@Ygarek]

@Juib Morrowind I'm pretty sure he still has his Chinese citizenship. Stripped of the Canadian and sent back to China, that's what he deserves at very least

[@Roccinante]

@@Ygarek China does not allow dual citizenship. We're working hard to catch criminals like him.

[@rogerc23]

This is why the Canadian passport is useless internationally now

[@f2000]

chinese citizenship is based on ethnicity, once a chinese always a chinese. LOL

[@JohnnyMacalvee-cf7et]

@@Roccinante You don't know what you are talking about. So the people should know that. What is the Canadian Intellinger going to do? This 5 video KZbin Channel?

[@marlyndionzon8265]

Money works in Canada. My friend and her husband got citizenship without living in the Canada at all. They both work in Dubai. Meanwhile, I started with a working visa, applied for a permanent residency, which took me 5 years and another 5years to become a citizen of USA.

[@JAMUSA2018]

Laws only deter those who wants to go the right way

[@c-light7624]

Out of curiosity, where are you from and what work did you do to obtain a work visa?

[@containedhurricane]

@@c-light7624 She'd probably got an H1B visa for nurse/ IT people or a diversity visa. Only adventurous, money-oriented and desperate people who dare to immigrate to the Wild West nowadays, since the worst inflation and violent crime rate in the last four decades occurred

[@c-light7624]

@@containedhurricane ah, yes. That makes sense. Thank you!

[@Rikard416]

I needa learn how to do that lol it's totally legal to game the system why not

[@ralph2361]

Here I am, working hard to get requirements for immigration, reading pages and pages of info while feeling the pressure of my work permit expiring and these ghost clients don't even want to live here. Pffft. This is why the process is constantly changing because of scammers. Making it harder for us who want to do it legit.

[@xhonkeri4066]

This is completely unfair to the people that come fairly and have a hard time starting a life in Canada

[@LironBerisha]

@Beejay King That is a great deal.

[@AsakuraAvan]

Life is a lot easier when you're rich

[@marteung]

Why is it unfair only to immigrants? Because people already established & living in Canada don't count?

[@Rikard416]

"Fairly". I am sure those whiteys came invited with chocolate cookies and flowers 200 years ago

[@Rikard416]

​@@xhonkeri4066 I didn't stutter. Yall started the game.Yall whiteys dont get to call when it ends.

[@KowalskiVanishing_Point]

Remember living in Sweden from 1994 to 2001. Met a lot of Bosnian refugees who had the good fortune to make it to Sweden and was talking to them one night about the process of being chosen. They told me not to believe everything you hear about humanitarian ideals involved in the process. They and many others arrived in Sweden after paying around 50 thousand US dollars per family under the table to UN personnel to facilitate their refugee claims. Hopefully, this comment is not disabled by CBC apparatchiks.

[@ajwsw3]

I believed them. World is full of corrupt and UN is one of them

[@sassillama9873]

We were required to pay to immigrate to Canada many years ago. It was a legal practise, you also had to prove your skill set as well. Things have changed.

[@doucefrance5481]

woa I from france and never knew this UN fraud, thank dude. How bosnian had 50k ?

[@poffa2]

It's still going on in western europe. And now it's much worse.

[@MalkTea]

Im sure your purely anecdotal experience from word of mouth is 100% factual, and applies to all refugees

[@Dobemandan]

2 years of a 7 year sentence.... What a joke. That's why we have so much crime in this country.

[@vincevaughan1894]

He only served 2 years and he got 10million to spend. What a stupid Canadian law.

[@davisholman8149]

Wow….what do you want to make a bet he is up to no good again. Or, that Sonny has ‘disappeared’.🤨

[@ostrajazda7507]

Sounds like good business to me.

[@kiratsingh4066]

It took me and my parents 10 years to get our citizenship so this hurts

[@monicanan8282]

Kirat Dadiala i feel ya

[@appiahallan]

I still haven’t gotten it after 20 years

[@AvadaKedavra943]

Why do you want it anyway? The official route if you choose the Express Entry via either the point system (education, skills, experience, jobs, age, etc) or via the Provincial Nominee program only takes 6 months from the date you submit a complete application package to the Federal government. Those Chinese didn't take away your quota because they used a separate stream for investors. If you, for example, have at least 5 million dollars cash to invest and employ 100 Canadians for at least 5 years, you can apply to the separate investor stream as well, it's a separate and private review process.

[@jawoapollon6019]

now money talks..

[@Neyobe]

Sameee! My grandparents from China had to take soooo loonngggg

[@vancouveride]

Sonny Wong makes 10 million, spends a couple years in jail and is fined 900K. Looks like he did well. No wonder he wasn't concerned about getting caught. Who wouldn't do 2 years in jail for ~5 million?

[@HappyHappyPanda88]

balance sheet checks out. sounds about right

[@hiphopisdead]

He probably spent a cool 2mill for lawyer fees

[@Zikwaful]

Wow, no wonder why people don't care about committing crimes like these... an immigrant myself who abide by the law I feel an insult when knowing about a story like this

[@fdsaffff]

he probly spent a lot bribing the canada law enforcers

[@scottvaj4434]

Sure everyone would do it, but few have the brains to pull it off. He brought in a lot of Chinese money.

[@zx3215]

My two applications for PR have been rejected. As it turned out later during federal court hearing, it was by a mistake at the IRCC's side. I had to study and work in Canada for 12 years before becoming a Canadian. It is so frustrating to know some people just get their status illegally. Or even legally - some get their PR as a gift from the government even before coming to Canada.

[@Kabaselefh]

Everyone has his life path that is different from yours. Stick to your life path and experience, don’t worry about what others do, it makes you look bitter and unsatisfied.

[@tonywong303]

Why you want to become a Canadian so bad lol

[@CrustyRizzy]

@@tonywong303 this coming from an Asian?

[@leonardo__dicaprio]

@@tonywong303 Maybe home country doesn't have good opportunity

[@doucefrance5481]

@@Kabaselefh yeah moroccan

[@canuck21]

Two years is not enough! There is not real justice.

[@Eric-uh7nl]

The punishments for immigration fraud are pathetic. Sunny Wang should've served the full sentence. This is a bloody joke.

[@abdulrahmanabdulghani8833]

What a human laws?Its a joke men!

[@pim782]

Happens in America a lot

[@QuantumFengShui]

Compare to child rapist and human trafficking?

[@robin212212]

Then talk to your politicians to build more jails and get rid of parole for good behavior.

[@AWhistleblower]

Money

[@MrBikboi]

Why is this man and his family not immediately deported after his absolute joke of a sentence?

[@MB-bz4mk]

T because he is a Canadian citizen. Read Bill C-6 which received royal assent 2017

[@1337machoman]

He would have given up his Chinese citizenship, and international law doesn't allow the authorities to make someone stateless. He also wasn't charged with anything that would result in revocation of his own citizenship. Only a very specific set of crimes would lead to that.

[@dhache1195]

@@MB-bz4mk by NO mean they are ''citizen'' of this country, only passport possessors

[@Andreas4696]

@@dhache1195 Are you dumb? You need to be a citizen of a country to get its passport.

[@MrSky10101]

Money talks

[@rowelradin5650]

He should be deported too and cancel his Canadian Citizenship.

[@OMGshinyobject]

I just want to share after being in Canada for 14 years i finally become a citizen next week! 😊

[@Pwong333]

Why did it take you 14 years to become a Cdn. Citizen?

[@danajones379]

They came to Canada to invest in the housing market. Many owners of houses and condos in Toronto/Richmond Hill and other areas live in China and pay managers to rent their property and take care of the money for them. China requested Canada to hand over Chinese citizens who took illegal sums of Chinese funds out of China but Canada refused due to the harsh Chinese sentences for that crime. Wealthy Chinese are laundering Billions of funds in the Canadian housing market and other investments. Although there are many other reasons for the Canadian housing bubble the fact remains that many young people and families residing in Canada can’t afford the inflated housing prices. Many Chinese come to Canada for their holidays, and one reason I know when they arrive is because my doctor is Chinese and every spring the office is packed with Chinese people who come to get their annual free check up, they all have Canadian citizenship and health cards too.

[@DixyBixy]

One simple word, capitalism. Blame Chinese for rich and your own people that can not afford the product of capitalism, so intelligent.

[@GreasyCashier]

@@DixyBixy what does socialized healthcare have to do with capitalism?

[@TheLiddleBigChannel]

Same in in Sydney, Australia

[@priestbrooklyn1094]

Disgusting....Can Canada afford Millions of Chinese living on the system? #Insanity

[@f2000]

remove dual citizenship, it's not they allow the white man to live in china. NEVER

[@paulphilips7486]

And Sunny Wang's citizenship not revoked??? this is ridiculous.

[@SenshiSunPower]

@kashkawi Wrong country.

[@thesammuthusamy]

A canadian is canadian ..justin treadeau on Harper govt citizenship revoke policy

[@jakesnow5394]

He's probably a rich Chinese...the ones the Government loves to give a passport to.

[@thesammuthusamy]

@@jakesnow5394 Wats wrong in giving passport to ri h people.

[@paulphilips7486]

@@thesammuthusamy Does not seem or sound that rich, dodgy oh yes, fraudulent big time.

[@nayabhassan2781]

I myself am a genuine student with good academic background and all but denied twice for study permit. Sad to see such people getting what they don't deserve.

[@froshedwin6580]

I actually got my second passport from Mr Waldron ... was not convinced until he delivered it to me though still not convinced until I used it to get here in Berlin and have been here for 4 years working without problems ... you can get to him through [phone]

[@siddiquenadir44]

Did you get it ?

[@mikexue5104]

how about now?

[@jonh537]

Go bomb a building

[@orange_leaf4913]

So the university accept you but the government did not grant a visa?

[@shiftrip]

As someone going through quite a bit of hassle to move/settle in Canada and pursue citizenship LEGALLY, this video makes me furious.

[@captshaatiral_sianaal_barial_z]

Canada is based on Racist chassis board: ***latest slavery version***; when immigrants NO more required their dual citizenship will be cancelled & sent back to their origins! This ethnic cleansing tactic is upgraded, it's because when Slaves were brought in America, nobody knew what is the origin of those Slaves therefore almost all the Slaves were dumped in the Caribbean islands: now every immigrants are kept as dual citizenship; when NOT needed will be dumped back to their origins! I was dumped earlier, because Canada got confused where to dump me or my next generation to; my mistake was I trusted Canada & foolishly declared everything! Later Canada broke the Protection of Privacy Accord & started dry snitching & snitching about me to the country here! Imagine such a huge country Canada & snitching about a person thousand miles away: it reflects what a tiny mind, tiny thoughts, tiny heart & a pissants attitude Canada has! Cannot tolerate to see other living peacefully, it bites & pinches them! Now I am in very bad condition!

[@mannycomium335]

Why isn't Wang deported? He should be forced to leave Canada and not allowed back in

[@lenitaa7938]

Probably, because he is a Canadian Citizen! Cannot deport our own Citizens! I don't understand, though, why his sentence was shortened so much!

[@mannycomium335]

@@lenitaa7938 He's not a NATURAL-BORN Canadian citizen. He was granted citizenship. Therefore (as is in plenty of countries) he technically can be stripped away of his Canadian citizenship and be deported. There's no excuse in this case to allow him to keep his citizenship. He was caught doing something illegal on perjury of the the government he swore alliance to

[@ningwang3307]

@@mannycomium335 You can't denaturalize a citizen as long as his own naturalization filing wasn't fraudulent.

[@janajana8243]

He's a pos Chinese, the government loves their money, so they get away with anything

[@JohnnyLawrence293]

His job since immigrating to Canada has been to scam the Canadian immigration system, he should lose his citizenship and be deported.

[@amandakwong2647]

You can literally buy a passport/ citizenship from any countries even the country that don't sell passport/ citizenship. You can donate money, buy the passport, invest heavily in their country or doing a big project in their country, that's some of the ways to get citizenship/ passport without getting troubles. A passport/ citizenship to another is not a big deal when you have hundreds of million dollars cause you can live anywhere you want.

[@paulasuzettebravo8597]

My family and I had been trying for years to immigrate to Canada, doing everything right, yet always denied. It’s crazy to me how easy millionaire have it.

[@maric7558]

Hey! Wondering how the situation is now 6 months after you made this comment?

[@TURBOINTEGRATYPER]

Already here I bet. With a newly bought house in Brampton for $2mil... Lol @@maric7558

[@USA-CANADA1480]

Because money talks and you know “who” walks…

[@sonicwoofer2008]

Worst part is they also get refunds from CRA as low income earner ! cheques unclaimed in mail boxes !

[@DetroitGoldie]

Deport him. He is living very nicely after breaking the law and being sneaky.

[@btoz6237]

He didn't pay his 900K fine, just didn't feel like it, our govt says ok

[@JenLovesBenz]

Lol immigrants are more protected by the government then born citizens it seems.

[@stevenobinator2229]

We give away citizenship like candy

[@citizenofnowhere7776]

Money is all the Canadian government cares.

[@DetroitGoldie]

DeepBlue oh yeah I forgot that China doesn’t allow dual citizenship to top it off.

[@dinny4001]

Most of these immigrants are also responsible for the extremely high real estate in Canada

[@abcd-ur8fo]

Ammar Ali Arif very true

[@AFlyingCookieLOL]

No, it is the government that caused that. Sad people don't realize that.

[@jasonsalz7185]

Hehe only know how to blame immigrants. U forgotten Canada is built by immigrants? 🤣 your name sound like poor immigrant to me who jealous of the rich immigrants who bring wealth to Canada🤣 The western people embrace free market yet complain when real estate price got higher because of foreigners investments 😂 hypocrites Free market or government control? Choose 1, dont be hypocrites when things doesnt go well in your way hahaahahah

[@jasonsalz7185]

Your name sound like Arab to me too, I wish how you would complain rich Arab muslim invested in london and causing high prices of property in london

[@ytyt3922]

Jason Salz The people who built Canada weren’t “immigrants”. There was no CANADA to immigrate to at the time. And the immigrants who arrived in the early 20th century had no welfare state. It was sink or swim. Many had to move back home. By contrast, this Chinese influx has everything handed to it on a silver platter by gutless globalists.

[@terencehill687]

I believe there are many offices like Wang in the US and Australia too

[@shuoyang5546]

I would not allow any clients trusting people like Wang, that is, if they ever wanted to go settle in the US, or Australia.

[@amondokeosai1244]

Chinese getting better and better doing all these stupid s*** and we let them get away with it

[@semhaln1573]

I am an Ethiopian born Australian became a citizen at the age of 15, I studied, work and pay my taxes in this beautiful country. Any immigrants that don’t obey by the law of the county should be deported.

[@arieswar4770]

She tried to get around the "rules" she belongs in jail crocodile tears.

[@lmc2664]

Aries War agreed. She and other clients of his are no innocent. They are well aware the laws and his scam regime. They play dumb when the scam failed through.

[@nickolasnielson4727]

It took me and my parents 10 years to get our citizenship so this hurts

[@bobjacobson858]

@@nickolasnielson4727 Are you AKA Kirat Dadiala?

[@candyk2028]

7 years? Not long enough, 70 years is more like it.

[@2011blueman]

What this tells me is that Canadian immigration doesn't have a database that tracks entries and exists into Canada. That's pretty shocking.

[@donnavandyer7797]

Leggo My Ego they actually don't stamp entry exits. As a matter of fact, the onus is on you to prove that you resided in Canada in the amount of time required for you to be granted citizenship. I have never had a stamp in my passport

[@goodnewsgoodnews8716]

U dont need database is out of dates live camera connecting live camera directing to canada immigration head office and the owner of the consultant license owner must be in his office 40hrs in his office like a regular worker in canada facing their live head boss which is canada immigration officer why canadian goverment are moving too slow to let this crook people canada is a beautiful country but why not using techology "like live camera" to catch this big fish why it takes 2yrs to catch this big fish

[@strawberries217]

They do.

[@kahmad92]

Canada didn't have a registry until 2016. It was one of Trudeau's 2015 campaign promises. Absolutely ridiculous that so many governments before his didn't put this in place.

[@jenkins5265]

It's so easy for an officer to assume there was a manual entry error though...it's really sad how people take advantage and destroy these rules that help protect everyone.

[@lmc2664]

The dude and all his clients are scammers. The real victims are the nation and its honorable immigrants and citizens. I applaud how the immigration department handled this case even though I still want to see him behind bars for a few more years and the penalty fines should’ve been higher. Keep in mind, he scammed over 10mil CAD in the course of ten years operation.

[@leituracrista7309]

It's painful to see that sort of situation when you go through a whole process to be in Canada legally. God only knows how much paper work is involved to apply a visa here. They should be heavily punished. Period.

[@genshitenson]

It pains me to see so many people--not just in Chinese Canadian community, but throughout all ethnicities and demographics--take Canadian citizenship for granted. Being a Canadian citizen, having the right to exercise responsibilities that come with this citizenship, are a privilege. I look forward to the system becoming better at recognizing applicants who understand and want to contribute rather than to leech off and take advantage.

[@saeedrafie2992]

I am naturalized Canadian. Have had never troubles with law . Have been paying tax since I immigrated to this beautiful country. Why this culprit is not being deported? He doesn't deserve to be a Canadian. When he got the citizenship he swore to obey the laws of this great country. Such behavior should not be tolerated. Tax payers are being punished for lack of legal system against such criminals. I am sure all these people he helped were aware that they were lying.

[@ifyouwantmoneythengivemeev8094]

it's against UN laws to make someone stateless, and china doesn't allow duel citizenships. see the problem?

[@hryank33]

Təbrizin Öz Balası give him longer sentence, seize all his money/assets, make sure he paid back all the money. Not that it is going to do much, because people like him will probably work under the table and make a fortune from fraudulent actions again.

[@nekochen]

I don't think it works that way. Once you're a citizen, you're a citizen. Unless you commit crime against the state or the crown. If a Canada-born citizen commits fraud or even murder, the person just gets beaten and raped in prison during the sentence period. While an immigrated citizen gets stripped of their citizenship and banish to float the pacific ocean for life? 😂 Don't forget. Unless you're a native, we're all immigrants to this land. Some of us just arrive sooner than others. This kind of double standard on the new comers just doesn't make sense or serve any justice.

[@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO]

@@nekochen - But the same rules/laws you elaborate, do not exist in China. It is a double standard/hypocrisy.

[@nostro1940]

Get deported to turkey

[@PatrickSeward35]

My ex wife was Chinese and has explained to me on multiple occasion that Chinese care nothing for laws, foreigners and especialy for another countries law. She said its there culture.

[@xuezhengchen5581]

you mean the culture of your ex-wife and her family?

[@jackyyan6528]

As a Chinese, I can say that almost every big Chinese immigration consulting company does this kind of stuff. I went to a agency to ask something about jobs for immigration and they asked 8k for a entry level job, 50k for LMIA and 80k for employer nomination. I did not pay any and found job on indeed myself. I am in Ontario btw.

[@beautifulmind1177]

👋

[@Bambotb]

What visa you used to go to canada with job offer from abroad ?

[@jackyyan6528]

@@Bambotb I completely four years of University in Toronto and got my post graduation work permit.

[@livefreeordiehard8898]

Yep.

[@maddog187killa]

This needs to the #1 priority for the Canadian Government. We do not want or need these people illegally here in Canada.

[@Tha66]

👍

[@myleghurts3546]

That's right! Kick everybody out, just you & me in this country

[@I_H8_thots]

How else will the liberals or NDP get votes? Immigrants have always voted left for "free" stuff.....very few are conservative

[@myleghurts3546]

@Viking Chef Gee, I wonder why? Somebody comes to another country hoping to make it on their own and succeed and finds themselves unwelcomed by a certain percentage, who are clearly visible. You get pissed and turn anger into vengeance. Not sayin' I agree but like Chris Rock says about OJ Simpson.." I understand"

[@travist1566]

It’s illegally not here to be exact…

[@fashioncreator5119]

My sister in law took a translator with her, she failed the Canadian Citizenship Exam and had the nerve to blame him for not giving her the answer in our language doing the translation, during the test. What can you do ? Lack of awareness. Common sense really isn't amongst us.🤦‍♀️🤔

[@jp4431]

Is there no language requirement to become a citizen? One should be taking such tests and interviews in either English or French, without a translator...

[@capybaraponque611]

She didn't deserve the citizenship.

[@chocopie7890]

What the fk! As my understanding, we need to do English Proficiency Test for PR and citizenship in Canada.

[@bigdaddyb04]

@@chocopie7890 There is one lol

[@aliaskari456]

I feel bad for Canada No one wants to live there due to harsh winters and high taxes But everyone wants Canadian passport or residence to travel around

[@nicolasuribestanko]

Canada: A good place to be FROM.

[@hyacinthleigh2250]

My mom waited for years and years just to be a Canadian citizen and not having enough of sleep just to finish all the requirements.. she took an interview, do all the paperworks and now we both Canadian citizens.

[@henryhiggins2021]

Sunny Wang got hit with a feather duster .

[@MrAngiePangy]

LOL

[@spudsapoppin]

No more ice cream and cookies for that dude.

[@NickTheHick]

Well done Fifth Estate.

[@janajana8243]

Years upon years too late and after the fact. But better late than never, right.

[@allstardemon]

you must be joking...this is embarrassing and as a canadian its shameful how lacks our government enforcement and judicial systems are. These people are essentially laughing in the face of canada as an easy target where one can get away with anything. So well done for stopping it but id be hiding my head in the sand if i let this happen under my watch and now having it be public info

[@ytyt3922]

Sauga Direct what does that have to do with Fifth Estate reporting on it?

[@allstardemon]

Yt Yt the authorities cooperated with the show.. if they kept quiet swept it under the rug there’d be no show. And fifth estate is cbc which is basically the largest representation of Canadian media. They’re shedding light on Canada’s nonsensical system. So that’s what it has to do.

[@Admin-ed8uq]

IT'S ironic. This knida situation around over the world. This video is more illustrative of Canada's political stance and absolutely excludes CHINA. Why expose Chinese illegal immigrants in Canada, instead of Mexican/Indian/Muslim. Really shame on Canada, Arresting Chinese tourists and smuggling drugs into China. Now focusing on Chinese immigrants.

[@kevindavide1450]

Thank you CBSA. It's better to deport criminals out of the country.

[@tea4229]

All that money should have been seized, he literally profited whilst he made millions he was charged under 1 million....,sickening

[@allstardemon]

every client of wang is a victim hahahahahahahahahhahahahaha

[@Ingcivilcarlos]

Canada's justice was way too nice to him, I don't mean to be xenophobic but he should have been deported with his citizenship revoked, he scammed the CIS for years and still got out with 90% of the stolen money from his clients and only 2 years of jail time.

[@mauricegeorge4320]

BS. because y'll mexicans simply cross the boarder claim you are "undocumented".

[@rogerc23]

Protecting your country and the integrity of your passport is hardly xenophobic. What a dumb comment

[@yourfriends]

@@rogerc23 protecting the country from what?

[@oscarbreton6098]

One of the biggest scams will only give you 2 years in jail. Bravo!!!

[@donsharma6136]

It seems, more and more that people are gradually leaving Canada. The continued rising cost of living, high taxes and long dark winters making this country less appealing and the u.s more appealing..

[@krishneelvyas723]

They allow Chinese easily and have high regulations and mostly reject tourist visas of small island countries

[@mangopurediy679]

yep you have show all this financial information just to have a family member visit from Jamaica.

[@SainiSaabLive]

I need 6.5 english to study in canada ...people getting citizenship without know english ..Great

[@the_koo3151]

DJ Saini without “knowing” English. If you need help, I’m an ESL Teacher, online

[@Amandeep-su3eh]

DJ Saini its knowing not know 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

[@aaeyeshadowinthedark]

keep learning maybe they approve u later

[@ikeasan1303]

Aman deep Didn't you understood? He's learning.

[@harindersinghbisht7429]

They have $$$$$$$

[@ArjunGMenon]

This is whole story is kind of amazing and incredible. Usually people want to stay in the country they immigrated. And other countries (like the US) are always trying to forcibly push out / get rid of people that are already there. Here, you have strangely the opposite problem.

[@subiazim-borealcanadianimm1613]

This is still going on!!! Many many cases like this, but authorities are too slow to act.

[@S0NOSMANLl]

Visited Vancouver last summer, at the border; Officer asked the Canadian passport holder where he was; he said " no English"; he asked French; same no French. I thought it is weird.

[@wolfgangselle3272]

It’s unbelievable that people get a Canadian passport even when they can’t speak any English … I don’t how that’s possible? I saw and I couldn’t believe it but hey got the Canadian passport

[@meeks516]

Until the law gets strict against fraud, this will continue to happen.

[@wayne8797]

He didn’t even get fined 10% of the reported $10m he made from the fraud. Went to jail for a couple of year and still living a millionaire’s life. This is a weak sentence for the mastermind.

[@blackstarafro2]

So he has millions from fraud, but yet he gets to keep all that money? This is ridiculous.

[@tirathsinghc]

Bing didn't even know how speak the language of the land, how is it OK to give her citizenship.

[@marcuscheung5025]

Cuz it was 2011

[@halfvolley11]

Says the turban guy. LMAO.

[@KENTOSI]

@@halfvolley11 What does a turban have to do with speaking English? He raises a good point. In Australia you need to have English proficiency before getting citizenship and I'm 100% on board with that.

[@halfvolley11]

@@KENTOSI Says the racist white Australian. LMAO.

[@KENTOSI]

@@halfvolley11 I'm not white so joke's on you LMAO.

[@reyalonso9402]

Only the tip of the iceberg.

[@rossanabachiorri1106]

In Italy too.

[@geofiggy]

It happens here in Ontario as well from what I've heard. I understand they stay at a common location under tourist visas and are picked up daily and taken to work and then taken back to the house.

[@victoria5167]

It took me 10 years in Canada to acquire my citizenship with proper legality. Paying Canadian taxes for 10 yeara ang being in Canada for 10years. So painful to hear this lind of manipulation.

[@lesliesmith5797]

Maybe Canada immigration should hire more people who can get the job done, obviously there is a lot of work to be done. Why just go after the big fish, go after all of those who commit fraud. The Chinese know it’s a joke to deal with Canada immigration.

[@Dunning.Kruger]

band-aide fix. Broken system overhaul

[@79tazman]

Yeah even getting caught is a joke sentenced to 7 years out in 2 it's a big joke I guess Canada don't mind these types that's why they have not gone after many of them LMAO!! What a joke our laws and Canada immigration is.

[@dhuuxo5547]

Yes Canada must make a hard constitutional about immigrants.

[@rf8754]

Not anymore, it's really hard to immigrate or even get work permit now because of scandals like that.

[@Cecil97]

multiply that fine by 10 times and then hire more officers, we could probably extract allot of government funding from those fines cause every single one of those clients have very deep pockets (I'm ethnic Chinese born in Canada and would like to weed away the frauds among us, I no sympathy for the corrupt top 1% Chinese officials/elites who extract all their money from hard working citizens who get little to nothing)

[@Sebastian.Reynolds]

For this kind of people is why migration policies become more and more strict with time. If you want to migrate to the country of your dreams, do it the right way, don't be illegal.

[@pruata]

No joda , parce

[@Sebastian.Reynolds]

@@pruata ???

[@carolynwilken7421]

Over 85,000 children missing in US DHS system...this is known ...

[@youngscooter6290]

Deport anyone who lied to get into Canada, my family struggled very hard to get here

[@yenc7909]

Why fined him so little, $900,000?? And two years for $10 million?

[@vitovito123]

He is still prifiting lol

[@Hassanelogs]

Account and property seized. Fine on top of that .

[@Xyb3rTeCh]

China makes so much money! Permanent ban and higher fines! China is dog!

[@ericlin0122]

i dont believe he only makes 10mil. it's hard to wire money out of china.

[@Xyb3rTeCh]

@@vitovito123 profiting dude

[@ShaunIsOnFire]

I went on a date with a recent immigrant from China. She had a fake job in Montreal which her parents back in China pay for. All she does is study French at “work” and collects a “pay Cheque” so she can pass the job / language checks and get her citizenship via Quebec, before she heads to Vancouver. Canadian/provincial immigration is completely broken and needs to be fixed.

[@j3012]

rat

[@davisholman8149]

How screwed up - if I was Canadian, I would be having a conniption fit! USA is bad too. What a way to slap your new country in the face!🤨

[@RobertRitchie-re5pt]

As a white Canadian I don’t believe you can be of Asian descent and Canadian. It’s not possible. We don’t think the same.

[@ShaunIsOnFire]

@@RobertRitchie-re5pt I wholeheartedly disagree. Someone could say that of any canadian as we are originally all from other nations if you go back far enough. Peace.

[@jamforall]

So I met a Chinese man tonight - he said that he was happy in China, but wanted to leave. He was disappointed when he came to Canada because he thought Canada was a "perfect country". Unfortunately for him, he is not only stuck with his misperception, he is also stuck with how people are "cold" in Toronto. He claimed to come just for white people. But he find out that some of them have been discriminatory against him. But he doesn't want to go back to China. I told him never to give up because he can live in China and Canada now that he is a Canadian citizen. See, that's so easy. But it was never always this way. He is now having anxiety attack and hair loss. The common symptoms of settlement stress, which usually happens around the Year five. This phenomenon is known as the immigrant effect. No friends, integration and inclusion is frustratingly slow and often times Difficult to achieve as an immigrant. But again, it is what it is.

[@revive3058]

what it means to be canadian ?? pancakes and maple cyrup for breakfast and poutine for lunch ??

[@almahdi990]

Oh! Canada! Take me! I'd love to live there legally. Almost have 10 years of graphic design experience and still can't migrate because of money.

[@sashabee57]

:( wish we could have you

[@ilovetyraandnaomi]

Try Europe . europe is good too

[@captshaatiral_sianaal_barial_z]

Canada is based on Racist chassis board: ***latest slavery version***; when immigrants NO more required their dual citizenship will be cancelled & sent back to their origins! This ethnic cleansing tactic is upgraded, it's because when Slaves were brought in America, nobody knew what is the origin of those Slaves therefore almost all the Slaves were dumped in the Caribbean islands: now every immigrants are kept as dual citizenship; when NOT needed will be dumped back to their origins! I was dumped earlier, because Canada got confused where to dump me or my next generation to; my mistake was I trusted Canada & foolishly declared everything! Later Canada broke the Protection of Privacy Accord & started dry snitching & snitching about me to the country here! Imagine such a huge country Canada & snitching about a person thousand miles away: it reflects what a tiny mind, tiny thoughts, tiny heart & a pissants attitude Canada has! Cannot tolerate to see other living peacefully, it bites & pinches them! Now I am in very bad condition!

[@riverdeep399]

Why wasn't he deported??!!

[@NotoriousVC]

$$$$$

[@Paraiso3009]

Maybe he is Canadian ?

[@lenitaa7938]

@ElPocho DelMundo I didn't get an impression that he was born here! He obviously has been here for many years and is a Citizen! Deportation of a Citizen.. where would one draw a line? The Canadian Citizens are protected! The Canadian Landed Immigrants are not protected until they become Citizens! The American Law of deporting for even the minor crimes, such as Marijuana, drunk driving (no one got hurt), etc etc of young people back to the countries they have never been to, don't know the language or culture, etc! These cases often ended up badly, suicides and deaths! There have been some Documentaries made on the subject! It is inhumane!

[@mattymag2394]

Probably isnt one of the few exceptions for Chinese dual citizenship. So he would have renounced his Chinese for his Canadian citizenship. They can remove his citizenship, but then he becomes stateless, which is a horrible situation to put anybody in.

[@DetroitGoldie]

MattyMag he needs to be in a bad situation.

[@kylefan8478]

This guy needs to be in prison for the full 7 years, passport permanently revoked and much more severe fined. The "clients" should be deported and permanently banned from entry.

[@heatherbowlan9822]

I wish they would check out Prince Edward Island , we have thousands on the island and 20 to30 living in one appartment , they are every were , .

[@davisholman8149]

If I was in charge, people wouldn’t like me very much - so what! I would make is legal to DEPORT any immigrant who is found to do something illegal. Good grief, we have our own home grown criminals. How STUPID can you get to import more???

[@user-kb2ol2xh9d]

What a shame...!!! Thank you to the officers and Canadian immigration

[@colorgrower]

money talks BS walks.

[@byram101]

As a Canadian living in Asia. Our biggest crisis is that we are universally identified as being weak. There is little deterrent for criminals to try something brazen. We need strong and fast law enforcement and unflinching penalties. A 7 year sentence with 2 years until release is a worldwide joke, and partial cause this activity occurs openly in Canada.

[@scottmike0]

The issue for canada is not its less strict immigration law, it is more so on how easily accessible the monetary benefits of being a canadian. If you are able to receive cash for working low pay job, and are recently an immigrant. There should be a new stipulation that states more documents that state you work there and a phone number to call that states you work there as well. Rather than increase law power,how about increase investigation power instead. It would be much simpler to solve, and also increase job growth doing this action. Its similar for america, we have the opposite issue, our law is much higher , and as result we fail to have the significant number of people working for investigative process to work.

[@halfvolley11]

It is actually opposite. In Canada, Asians are considered weak and even behave like weak. By Asians, I mean Chinese, not Indians.

[@aaeyeshadowinthedark]

yes weak countries become the target for well versed criminals

[@renegadehitman3271]

We are weak. I feel embarrassed to be a Canadian citizen. Not mention Shiny pony winning re election is a digrace

[@ukisbeggar8462]

@@renegadehitman3271 hey so u consider yourself as weak? lol

[@yashwantmineKexpert]

Kudos to the investigators ! Unsung heroes ...

[@michaelshih8163]

What we need is airport screening when a person arrives in Canada, and screening when a person leaves Canada. Such a system would give immigration authorities information about how long a person stays in Canada in any one year. At the moment, there is screening only on arrival.

[@davisholman8149]

And at ship terminals, or any other travel companies. First world countries need to STOP this B.S.🤬

[@cw7368]

Eye-opening report. Thank you CBC. We want more of this content.

[@jen77860]

US will deport him after serving his complete sentence in jail.

[@NullPointer1100]

jenny ruiz I think he’s a Canadian citizen now, thus Canada cannot deport him. If he’s only Canadian permanent resident, he will be interviewed in Beijing now.

[@jen77860]

@@NullPointer1100 even he's a US citizen his citizenship can be revoked.

[@CBoyCC569]

It doesn't work like that, if he has been granted a citizenship and he dropped his other citizenship. New country can not revoke his citizenship as otherwise he will not be any country's citizen thus cansdian authorities can not kick him out of the country. and in most cases they may not be able to charge him with anything and grant him another citizenship by law

[@maplecanada8039]

Jenny Ruiz, First and foremost, he is in Canada, he is a Canadian and the crimes were done in Canada. Am I right to say about most of you people giving comments on this site.

[@shoaibnury9313]

@@maplecanada8039 For rest of the world people see Canada as a state of US. What ever US president think good for Canada, thy Canadian obliged. Whats the difference? As Canadian can not think independently nor Canada is more than an state of US. Its makes life easier for non european.

[@josemarino4270]

This is quality of work and I do not have a problem with funding CBC for this kind of work. Perhaps funding should be by department or by show. This reporting, or documentary, is top-shelf, hands down. Thanks for posting, outstanding work. I am subscribed to your channel now.

[@ibendover4817]

Who would have thought Canada would turn into more of a joke than the US.

[@crypton_8l87]

Equally a joke how you come to be where you are. Tiny festering European origins? Lollz

[@scottttym]

We need to remove immigration consultants from what we allow as a real legal job. Make the immigration process more easy to apply.

[@831sancho]

He made over $10M, only got fined $900K and only served 2 years!?!?!? Sign me the F up!

[@janajana8243]

Crime pays

[@831sancho]

@@hockeyaddict7007 serio?

[@ramihaidar7159]

We were all immigrants once, then some of us learnt to love Canada, called it HOME, and became citizens of the Great White North.

[@shanemcdowall]

How many Canadians, Australians or New Zealanders have migrated to China and India in the last 30 years? The answer is NO ONE. People from China and India will do anything to get into our countries because their countries are corrupt shitholes.

[@chhetdaracheat5397]

10 times is already enough to doubt it🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@richyleed]

2 year sentence when he was suppose to be in for 7. that's Canada for you.

[@sdnalyam]

very weak sentence. All sentences must be 3 times gross money made and 30 years minimum in jail and then on release stripped of citizenship and sent back to China and never allowed back into Canada.

[@Foxtrotwilconiner1969]

sdnalyam yes

[@pogo1140]

Question, Do you really expect to get 3x the money back, or is that amount just to make yourself feel better?

[@LITDRACULA]

Bro 30yrs in jail r u mad he didn't committed any crime like murder etc. He was just playing with the law that's it.

[@chrisskuse2945]

should be minimum 5 years max 15 and at fined at least half of what they earned from the activity

[@ThriftyCHNR]

probably more fair would be 1.5-2X gross money, plus 5 years jail time served.

[@user1fja98dnaiid]

So ma'am, why do you want to live here?.... Where am I?...... APPROVED!

[@wwkhjij8770]

I am a Canadian immigrant PR now but I actually lived and studied in Quebec for five years now and has built a connection to the local community. I even learnt French there.... The people who provide fake profile srsly make me mad and feeling unfair.

[@jamalbussanut]

good way to screen immigrants...make sure they can speak one of the initial languages by the time of their interview. If you need a translator 5 years after you emmigrated to a country how could you be integrated into the society?

[@willwu6960]

Chinese immigrants are the worst at assimilating into western cultures and society. they are obnoxious

[@jamalbussanut]

Matthew Li aboriginal people didn’t emigrate here, they got colonized lol. 0 relevance to my comment

[@jamalbussanut]

@Matthew Li because the whites colonized the natives, not the other way around lol. really not that hard to understand. also there were multiple tribes with their own languages, non were transcribed which would make it near impossible to standardize a method of teaching native languages to european setllers.

[@jamalbussanut]

@Matthew Li ALSO...colonialism happened hundreds of years ago, our legal system is written in french and english. those are the languages you learn to integrate

[@jamalbussanut]

@Matthew Li how are you going to avoid being defrauded if you can't read english when signing a car loan? how are you going to explain your symptoms to a doctor at a hospital? how are you going to understand the platforms politicians run on? you expect to have a translator provided everywhere you go ? my parents are immigrants from the middle east, they emigrated to sweden, learned swedish, then emigrated to canada and learned english. it takes like 4 months of practice to get to a conversationally valuable level of english proficiency, is that too much to ask of an immigrant who's been here for 5 years with the goal of becoming a citizen and having access to our socialized services? you have no logic in your arguments

[@QuaabQueb]

He calls the police on them and then hands them his phone hahaha!!!!!! Priceless 15:50

[@leylamaxamed107]

@yo dasxi but china is not in war like the muslim countries reffuges are from or has gangs controlling the country like mexico. Their lives are at threat so thats why they need help. Their is nothing that china needs help with.

[@anotheran]

Already released, $9M for 2 years in minimum security prison. Pretty good trade off

[@stephanienguyen6992]

Explores = MORE Cases, please

[@obazas]

Thats the stupidest thing I’ve eve seen How can a fake stamps can work? Shouldn’t all entries & exit be recorded in a computer system? So what’s the point of having the computers in the airports?

[@e-curb]

No one checks you leaving the country.

[@evanshiong3557]

As the son of Chinese immigrants to Canada myself and having family friends who are also Chinese immigrants to Canada, I was thrown back by this.

[@anthonysilva5312]

The Eagles said it best, “ You can’t hide those lyin’ eyes”.

[@alevsahin3740]

He was only sentenced 7 years?! This guy has no shame he would do it again when he’s out 😪😪