John McCallum at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On February 8th, 2012. See this statement in context.

February 8th, 2012 / 3:45 p.m.

Liberal

John McCallum Liberal Markham—Unionville, ON

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Ms. Robinson, for being with us today.

You have probably heard the story from a week or so ago about six public servants from Citizenship and Immigration Canada effectively masquerading as new Canadians in a citizenship ceremony for a media appearance. Given your responsibility for, I guess I could say, the professionalism of the public service, do you have any comments on the appropriateness of that situation?

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