{"id":4350,"date":"2025-12-08T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/?p=4350"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:00:46","slug":"conservatives-push-for-an-end-to-virtual-citizenship-ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/conservatives-push-for-an-end-to-virtual-citizenship-ceremonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives push for an end to virtual citizenship ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Shadow Minister for Immigration Michelle Rempel Garner has renewed calls for the Liberal Government to abandon virtual citizenship ceremonies and return to in-person events. Rempel Garner <a href=\"https:\/\/schindlerconsulting.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=9fc8b1bff633310f5215a381a&amp;id=3bca03939c&amp;e=227fc3c4e9\">criticized<\/a> the current system, where over half of new Canadians take their citizenship oath online, describing it as inadequate for such a significant milestone. She argued that in-person ceremonies represent the unifying foundation of Canadian civic life and should be treated with the same gravity as other life-changing commitments. The Conservatives maintain that restoring traditional ceremonies would help rebuild public confidence in Canada&#8217;s immigration system, as support has reached historic lows.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Shadow Minister for Immigration Michelle Rempel Garner has renewed calls for the Liberal Government to abandon virtual citizenship ceremonies and return to in-person events. Rempel Garner criticized the current system, where over half of new Canadians take their citizenship oath online, describing it as inadequate for such a significant milestone. She argued that in-person<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[411],"tags":[421],"class_list":["post-4350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-citizenship","tag-conservatives-push-for-an-end-to-virtual-citizenship-ceremonies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4352,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions\/4352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminocanada.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}