Hello, Despite the strike by federal government employees, there is no significant backlog in processing passports, says the minister in charge of the file. Karina Gould, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, said Tuesday that only about 20 per cent of the normal amount of passport applications were received during the strike by 120,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada. “Particularly this week, Canadians can probably expect longer lineups because of the two weeks of applications that didn’t come in, but we will deal with them on an urgent basis,” Ms. Gould told journalists ahead of the...