The task force will review service delivery, identify gaps and areas for improvement, and make recommendations to help Canadians receive adequate service.
Other members of the task force include Ministers Mary Ng (trade), Ahmed Hussen (housing) and Sajjan (international development).
Prime Minister Trudeau assembled the task force as stories of lengthy waits at passport and other offices become common for many people.
One Canadian, a woman named Whitney B., flew from Vancouver, B.C., to Edmonton to avoid long lineups.
“Not everyone has six hours to wait,” she said, Black Press Media reported.
Other Canadians are indeed waiting hours to get their passports.
In London, Ont., for example, people have lined up before 4:00 a.m. at the Passport Canada office in Cherryhill Village Mall. The office opens at 8:30 a.m.
The federal government has launched an online resource to help Canadians track wait times at walk-in passport offices.
The wait time at the office at the Canada Place Building in Edmonton, Alta. is estimated at four hours.
Canadians can expect to wait about one hour and 45 minutes at the Hamiton Street office in Regina, Sask.
And if trying to get a passport at the Main Street office in Winnipeg, people could be waiting up to five hours.