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Citizenship Test and Marketable Skill

British citizenship test: To me, he seemed perfect citizenship material: He spoke several languages, and he had at least one marketable skill, carpentry, which is one more marketable skill than I possess, according to Globe and Mail. This is a catch-all ASF view; only displays when an unsupported article type is put in an ASF drop zone He’d call up the stairs to where I worked in my home office: Fredericton is capital of New Brunswick, yes Rashid: What is Meech Lake, please I felt for him, I really did. Rashid was from Afghanistan, had already failed the citizenship test twice, and spent a vast amount of time cramming for his third try. I’d been through similar stress when I took the British citizenship test, which did not have nearly enough questions about football and Coronation Street, and far too many about voter turnout in Wales. It occurs to me that we should be imparting actually valuable information to newcomers, such as: Do you pay four times as much for a double-double If your dinner guests aren’t Canadian senators, is it permissible to serve cold Camembert and broken crackers Last year saw the passage of Bill C-24, the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act, which is actually the weakening of citizenship act if you happen to be a dual citizen. Our citizenship test is tough – so tough that it keeps some would-be Canadians away. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.