Finding the Right Balance in Canada’s Citizenship Policy – My Article in Inside Policy

On the day of tabling of the revisions to The Citizenship Act, my article on finding the right balance is out in Inside Policy. I focus on four elements of  balance:

• Maintain citizenship program integrity and rigorousness;
• Ensure fairness and comparable opportunity to obtain citizenship among different communities and education levels;
• Maintain competitiveness of Canadian citizenship policies compared to other immigration-based countries; and,
• Ensure a citizenship focus in immigration, settlement and multiculturalism programs (i.e., permanent not temporary residents).

Inside Policy – February 2014 (page 42)