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Immigration Minister Jason Kenney: The Canadian Press

Citizenship Ceremony Dept: OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is dialling back the blame he once placed on his department's officials for a misleading citizenship ceremony broadcast on the Sun News Network last fall, according to Winnipeg Free Press. But he was striking a decidedly different tone Tuesday after The Canadian Press published the bureaucrats' version of events that the network was actively involved in the decision to use civil servants as stand-ins and alledged private citizens participate in a citizenship reaffirmation ceremony, in this photo posted on the immigration department's Twitter feed. Senior government officials insisted the Sun News Network was actively involved in the decision to have bureaucrats take the place of actual new Canadians during a televised citizenship ceremony last fall, newly released documents show. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO Kenney had criticized civil servants when it was revealed six bureaucrats reaffirmed their oath of citizenship alongside three or four bona fide new Canadians during a televised ceremony last October. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.