Canada studies Britain’s ‘nudge unit’ for ways to give the public a push – The Globe and Mail

A good initiative as some of these soft techniques – providing less intrusive ways to influence behaviour rather than heavier regulation – are worth exploring, despite the inevitable criticism of nanny statism.

The changes in citizenship language requirements and procedures essentially tried to nudge people to doing citizenship testing up front through a faster process. Unfortunately, given the abysmal processing capacity and backlog – more than 2 years to become a citizen, largely moot.

Canada studies Britain’s ‘nudge unit’ for ways to give the public a push – The Globe and Mail.