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Cross-Country Tour and Chris Alexander

Chris Alexander: Citizenship minister fires back, Feb. 22, according to The Star. Chris Alexander, in Halifax as part of a cross-country tour to promote proposed changes to the Citizenship Act, said, 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. When you do these things to underline the meaning and value of citizenship, you make it more valuable and Re: Citizenship minister fires back, Feb. 22 No honest, hard-working, hourly-paid clerks, nor any Canadian, should be funding medical and pension plans to which they themselves do not have access and the benefits to which they are denied. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.