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Jason Kenney: Citizenship Ceremony

Civil Servants Dept: 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, according to CBC. During the Sun News broadcast, the hosts referred to the group as new Canadians that had "finally" received their citizenship and 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. Participants in a citizenship reaffirmation ceremony appear in a photo posted on the immigration department's Twitter feed last October. Six federal bureaucrats were drafted to appear as new Canadians for the ceremony on a private TV network. Canadian 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. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.