Feds aiming to clear passport backlog in next ‘4 to 6 weeks’: minister
Ottawa is acknowledging it underestimated the demand for passports amid relaxed COVID-19 restrictions, and is aiming to clear backlogs by the end of the summer.
“Where we want to be is people getting their passports well ahead of time when they apply, and that’s what we’re working towards in the next four to six weeks,” she said. On Monday, Gould said the federal government had anticipated an uptick in demand when restrictions were relaxed, but not the scale of applications or the way people chose to apply.Rogers outage exposes Canada’s reliance on telcos: ‘We don’t have a lot of options’
Between April and June this year, Canadians submitted more than 808,000 passport applications, 166,000 more than during the same period in 2019.
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