After months of delays and the federal government saying it moved “heaven and earth” to speed up passport processing, the minister responsible says the backlog in applications has been “virtually eliminated.”
Wait times for Canadians to receive their passports are back to pre-pandemic standards, Karina Gould announced Tuesday during a federal cabinet retreat in Hamilton, Ont. This comes, Gould said, as a result of increasing passport offices’ “processing capacity” and “streamlined operations.”
The delays led to criticism and questioning of the federal government’s ability to deliver services to Canadians. “Approximately 90 per cent of the backlog of applications have been processed, and the backlog is virtually eliminated,” Gould said.
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