Earlier reports that the Citizenship and Immigration Canada offices in Winnipeg Manitoba and St. John’s Newfoundland would be closing have been corrected by CIC authorities. Neither office will be closing.
According to the latest clarification from a representative at the St. John’s office, staff at the office will be reduced by one employee and the office will remain open.
The federal government has been down-sizing several departments recently as part of a measure to reduce the growing federal deficit.