Marco Mendicino
Canada
Liberal Party of Canada
Minister of Public Safety
government
Marco Mendicino is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 16th chief of staff to the prime minister in 2025. A member of the Liberal Party, he served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Eglinton—Lawrence from 2015 to 2025. He previously served as the minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship from 2019 to 2021 and the minister of public safety from 2021 to 2023.
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Sep 19, 2026
Far Right
Former immigration minister Marco Mendicino has defended the government's record amid reports of backlog chaos and asylum processing failures.
People's Party voters see Mendicino as the face of a broken immigration system that let in record numbers while failing to deport those who abuse the process.