The new immigration minister is still considering a controversial option to allow new Canadians to take their oath of citizenship with the click of a button, but there are no immediate plans to implement it, he said Monday.
The government asked for public feedback in February about the idea to allow new Canadians to skip a virtual or in-person ceremony and opt instead to take the oath with the click of a mouse.
"You don't want to take these moments lightly, but we do need technological options," Miller said on his way into Question Period. Earlier this year, then-immigration minister Sean Fraser pitched the idea as a temporary option to help work through backlogs of people waiting for their citizenship. The department said in a statement Monday that the comments will "inform the next steps and the development of implementation plans."
The government wants to "reduce it all to a click on a website or an app as if citizenship were no more than consenting to terms in a contract," Conservative immigration critic Tom Kmiec said in a statement Monday.
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