Federal Figures and Jason Kenney

Jason Kenney: But federal figures show the provision will apply to very few people, and that current rules in some ways block the Conservative proposal, according to Globe and Mail and It was a popular proposal last year that got rolled into the governments sprawling Citizenship Act changes a passport fast-track for those in the military. The notion of a military fast-track to citizenship was first raised in a private members bill tabled by Calgary MP Devinder Shory, and later championed by Jason Kenney then the immigration minister before the bill died on the order paper last summer. This year, Mr. Kenneys successor, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander, revived the suggestion by rolling it into the new, wide-ranging Bill C-24 , which the government says is the most substantial overhaul of citizenship rules in a generation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.