Feds open new offices in Trois Rivieres, Sault Ste. Marie, Charlottetown and Red Deer, none in B.C.
That’s a no-brainer for Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Taylor Bacharach, who raised the issue of the need for a passport processing centre in northern B.C. at the meeting of the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako Oct. 13 in Burns Lake.
“People have to drive all the way to Vancouver in order to access to urgent processing for passports and this has been a real problem with the federal government,” Bachrach said at the meeting. The government opened passport offices this year, in Trois Rivieres, Que., Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Charlottetown, P.E.I. and Red Deer, Alta. Bachrach is hopeful that Karina Gould, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, will extend that courtesy to northern B.C.