Passport Canada: Canada

Passports Dept: OTTAWA The iconic images on Canada s new passports, unveiled with fanfare last week, short-change women and multicultural communities, says a report ordered by Passport Canada, according to The Chronicle Herald. Eight focus groups assembled in four cities last April found nothing inappropriate or disturbing, but almost all said the choice of images failed to reflect Canada s diversity and the passport agency hired a survey firm to disaster check more than a dozen of the watermark images on the pages of new passports being introduced next year, to ensure nothing offensive would be released. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.