Ottawa to overhaul citizenship guide

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No longer will prospective immigrants learn that Canada is a strictly peaceful nation. Instead there will be a greater emphasis on Canada’s military history and on the poppy as a symbol of remembrance and of Canada’s sacrifice in the First World War.

Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney will reveal a major overhaul Thursday of the booklet given to all citizenship applicants. The current booklet, A Look at Canada, was written under a Liberal government in 1997. In the past Mr. Kenney has said he can't believe the booklet, intended to help applicants study for their citizenship tests, includes a lengthy section on protection of the environment but barely makes mention of the Canadian Forces.

The 45-page booklet also includes a two-page discussion of Canada's aboriginal peoples and fails to discuss the history of tensions between Quebec and the rest of Canada.

“Since becoming Minister, I have often remarked on how the citizenship education materials the Government of Canada provides to newcomers are inadequate. They fail to provide newcomers with a solid grasp of our country's history, symbols, values and institutions,” Mr. Kenney says in a statement set to be released Tuesday afternoon.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-to-overhaul-citizenship-guide/article1358189/

War if necessary but not necessarily war. What happened to the second war?
Boy! Just what one would expect from a reformer!

Looking more and more like a Duffy.

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1. Apparently there is no mention of gay marriage being legal.

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2. It's creeping Conservative totalitarianism

It's like they won't let anything alone - a steady drumbeat of propaganda wherever you look.

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3. not the first time this a-hole has re-written history

http://wmtc.blogspot.com/2009/07/harper-government-tries-to-rewrite.html

Kenney has also deleted information from the CIC website that noted Canada offered refuge to Vietnam war resisters and draft dodgers.

Down the memory hole it goes ... while the Ignatieff and his "opposition" party sit around with its thumbs up its asses. He's quickly making Dion look like a hardline statesman.