{"id":16552,"date":"2012-05-24T18:33:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T22:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16552"},"modified":"2012-05-24T18:33:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T22:33:37","slug":"effective-communication-in-english-or-french-to-be-a-canadian-citizenship-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/effective-communication-in-english-or-french-to-be-a-canadian-citizenship-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Effective communication in English or French to be a Canadian citizenship requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/05\/24\/language-skills-the-target-of-canadian-citizenship-reform\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NP_Top_Stories+%28National+Post+-+Top+Stories%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People applying for Canadian citizenship must now provide \u201cobjective evidence\u201d that they can not only read, but actually communicate in English or French. If they don\u2019t have a diploma from an English or French school, they will have to either pass a language test or take government-approved language classes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By that measure, Rowan Williams would be denied Canadian citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: People applying for Canadian citizenship must now provide \u201cobjective evidence\u201d that they can not only read, but actually communicate in English or French. If they don\u2019t have a diploma from an English or French school, they will have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/effective-communication-in-english-or-french-to-be-a-canadian-citizenship-requirement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[2066,2241],"class_list":["post-16552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-rowan-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}