It's apparently a Canadian thing to engage in self-deprecating humour and to claim that problems don't exist. It is also apparently a Canadian thing to make migrants jump through hoops, and yet to expect them to be grateful for the opportunity. So to honour these Canadian social mores I propose a new TV show to make citizenship more entertaining.
(There used to be a TV show called crystal maze, the object of which was for teams to solve a number of practical challenges and climb through a maze to hopefully reach the crystal chamber and "win").
So I propose that backlogged applicants be given the opportunity to solve puzzles and climb through an IRCC maze like lab rats (located in a disused nuclear bunker in Northern Ontario) to eventually reach a Matrix chamber where they can claim their chance to "win" urgent processing. to make things even more entertaining, as they crawl through the IRCC maze, the lab r.., I mean prospective new citizens, will face monopoly obstacles like go back 5 steps, indefinite csis screening, RQ lite and sorry we lost your application. It could be made disabled friendly to make it more accessible.
It won't be any less or more fair than the current system, not would it reduce or improve processing times, but it would certainly be more entertaining and less stressful than refreshing the tracker every hour, every day. It would be quintessentially Canadian and boost national morale during the cost of living crisis (what crisis?)
(There used to be a TV show called crystal maze, the object of which was for teams to solve a number of practical challenges and climb through a maze to hopefully reach the crystal chamber and "win").
So I propose that backlogged applicants be given the opportunity to solve puzzles and climb through an IRCC maze like lab rats (located in a disused nuclear bunker in Northern Ontario) to eventually reach a Matrix chamber where they can claim their chance to "win" urgent processing. to make things even more entertaining, as they crawl through the IRCC maze, the lab r.., I mean prospective new citizens, will face monopoly obstacles like go back 5 steps, indefinite csis screening, RQ lite and sorry we lost your application. It could be made disabled friendly to make it more accessible.
It won't be any less or more fair than the current system, not would it reduce or improve processing times, but it would certainly be more entertaining and less stressful than refreshing the tracker every hour, every day. It would be quintessentially Canadian and boost national morale during the cost of living crisis (what crisis?)
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