Passport Canada is an independent operating agency of the Government of Canada with bureaucratic oversight provided through Foreign Affairs Canada. It operates under the auspices of the Canadian Passport Order which defines the agency. Prior to March 2005, it was known as the Passport Office.
Passport Canada is responsible for issuing, revoking, withholding, and recovering Canadian passports, and it is the sole issuer of them (except for emergency and temporary passports that may be issued by a Canadian mission abroad).
Due to the agency's status as a Special Operating Agency, Passport Canada is financed through the fees collected for issuing passports and other travel documents. It does not receive direct funding from the federal government.
Read more about Passport Canada: Canadian Passport Order, Auditor General's Report
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