Finance committee  The funding announced in the budget will be put towards citizenship processing, which will increase the number of decisions we're able to make. It will increase the department's capacity to make decisions on citizenship applications. In terms of the increase in fee, the revenue

Finance committee  I'll just give a brief overview of clauses 170 and 171. Clause 170 would repeal the existing fee-making authority in section 27 of the Citizenship Act and replace it with broadened authority, permitting the Governor in Council to make regulations governing fees for services prov

Finance committee  In terms of increasing the fee for the service?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  On average, our competitor countries take about two to six months in terms of their processing times for citizenship. I don't have the breakdown per country.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. I can give you an answer regarding the volumes. In 2010 there were 143,595 people who became Canadian citizens. In 2011 there were 181,288 people who became Canadian citizens.