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Conservatives order rewrite of 'insipid' citizenship guidebook
Yahoo Canada ^

Posted on 04/29/2009 3:55:35 PM PDT by nuconvert

OTTAWA - The current guidebook for Canadian newcomers includes two pages on environmental stewardship and barely a mention of the Canadian military - and that has Jason Kenney hopping mad.

Kenney, the Conservative minister of Citizenship and Immigration, has ordered an overhaul of the 12-year-old citizenship test and accompanying educational material.

It's part of a government push to foster greater integration of immigrants into the Canadian mosaic, Kenney told The Canadian Press in an interview.

The current 47-page immigrant booklet, entitled "A Look at Canada," dates from 1997, when the previous Liberal governments were just four years into their 13-year run.

As Kenney acerbically characterizes it, the booklet includes two pages "on recycling" - but "not one single sentence on Canadian military history."

(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; canadiancitizenship; insipid

1 posted on 04/29/2009 3:55:36 PM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

Good. See what happens when Conservatives run government? Even in the minority they’re making good things happen.


2 posted on 04/29/2009 3:56:56 PM PDT by AntiKev ("Within the strangest people, truth can find the strangest home." - Great Big Sea - Company of Fools)
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To: fanfan

Ping!


3 posted on 04/29/2009 4:02:51 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: bamahead; GMMAC; Clive; exg; kanawa; backhoe; -YYZ-; Former Proud Canadian; Squawk 8888; ...
Thanks for the ping, bamahead. :-)


4 posted on 04/29/2009 4:17:45 PM PDT by fanfan (God, Bless America, please.)
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To: fanfan

Not one senetnce on the Candian armed forces? That is an utter disgrace.


5 posted on 04/29/2009 5:46:26 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

Yep.

That’s why our Conservative government is fixing it. :-)


6 posted on 04/29/2009 5:49:24 PM PDT by fanfan (God, Bless America, please.)
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To: fanfan

Good one them! The men and women of Canada’s armed forces deserve it.


7 posted on 04/29/2009 6:21:40 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

Good ON them...


8 posted on 04/29/2009 6:22:22 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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