This article is about the government agency. For the travel document issued in Canada, see Canadian passport.
Passport Canada
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Dissolved
1 July 2013
Superseding agency
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Type
Special operating agency
Key document
Canadian Passport Order
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Passport Canada was an independent, special operating agency of the Government of Canada with bureaucratic oversight provided through Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. Formerly known as the Passport Office prior to June 2006,[1] Passport Canada was responsible for issuing, revoking, withholding, and recovering Canadian passports, and it was the sole issuer of them (except for emergency and temporary passports that may be issued by a Canadian mission abroad).[2]
The agency operated under the auspices of the Canadian Passport Order which defined the agency.[3] Due to its status as a special operating agency, Passport Canada was financed through the fees collected for issuing passports and other travel documents. It did not receive direct funding from the federal government.
Passport Canada became defunct on 1 July 2013, after the amended Canadian Passport Order came into effect. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada replaced Passport Canada as the passport issuing authority on that date.[4] Employment and Social Development Canada, through Service Canada, is responsible for the delivery of the passport program on behalf of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. Service Canada delivers in-person passport services in passport offices and at Service Canada Centres in Canada.[5]
^"Canadian Passport Order, Version of document from 2006-03-22 to 2006-06-27".
^"Directory of Canadian Government Offices Abroad".
^"Canadian Passport Order, Version of document from 2013-03-27 to 2013-07-01".
^Cite error: The named reference order was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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