Canada's passport is getting a makeover with a new design that will feature more natural landscapes and fewer Canadian historical moments and monuments.
A page from the new Canadian passport shows children jumping into a lake with a canoe in the background.
Speaking at a news conference on Wednesday, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Karina Gould and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Sean Fraser said the new design is the product of 10 years of consultation."One of the things that I heard was we want to celebrate our diversity and inclusion, we want to celebrate our natural environment ... and [we] tried to bake those elements into the design.
"I think a couple of the questions have been suggesting that there's a partisan aspect to this," Gould said.
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