Saskatchewan: Becoming a Canadian citizen isn't the end of the journey for Saskatoon Ahmadi man

Ahmed tried to find volunteer activities to be involved in on weekends and in the evenings because he was impressed by what his Canadian friends were doing to help others.

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Source/Credit: Saskatoon StarPhoenix
By Thia James | January 8, 2018

Rashid Ahmed wished he would become a Canadian citizen this year, during Canada 150 celebrations — and he did.

On Dec. 12, the 28-year-old took the oath of citizenship alongside 96 others in Saskatoon.

“It was (an) overwhelming feeling because one thing is that my real family was not able to make it to the ceremony because of their work, but my Canadian family was there to support me,” he said in an interview at his home in late December.

Ahmed is one of the 78,032 people who took the oath of citizenship from Jan.1 to Sept. 30, 2017 in Canada, and the 2,999 new Canadians who called Saskatchewan their home during the same time, according to the latest numbers from the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. Final figures for the whole year are not yet available.
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