Citizenship Act and Chris Alexander

Chris Alexander: Chris Alexander, in Halifax as part of a cross-country tour to promote proposed changes to the Citizenship Act, said Friday theres been an overwhelmingly positive response to the amendments tabled earlier this month, according to The Star. When you do these things to underline the meaning and value of citizenship, you make it more valuable and Citizenship Minister Chris Alexander is challenging critics who suggest the federal government is making it more difficult for immigrants to become naturalized citizens. Every time we ve made the criteria slightly more demanding for citizenship .... we have seen the number of permanent residents applying to be citizens go up, he told a news conference at an immigration museum on the Halifax waterfront. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.