Two senior Citizenship and Immigration Canada officials — including the registrar of Canadian citizenship — thanked and congratulated a mid-level bureaucrat for organizing a fake citizenship ceremony broadcast on Sun News Network, internal department emails show.
“Thanks for the feed back (sic) and the quick fix to bring CIC staff,” writes Raylene Baker, registrar of Canadian citizenship, to Tracie LeBlanc, acting senior communications adviser for the department’s Ontario office, in an email obtained under Access to Information laws by The Canadian Press.
LeBlanc is the bureaucrat who, according to the emails, recruited six of her colleagues to participate in a citizenship reaffirmation ceremony at Sun News Network’s Toronto studio last October that purported to show 10 “new” Canadians “finally” attaining their citizenship.
“Tracie saved the day on this one! Merci mille fois Tracie!” Ian Darragh, director of communications for Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s Ontario branch, writes in another email to a colleague.
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