Bill C-3 könnte die Staatsbürgerschaftstüren für Menschen mit wenig Verbindung zum Land öffnen
Bill C-3 could open the citizenship doors to people with little connection to Canada
Bill C-3 könnte die Staatsbürgerschaftstüren für Menschen mit wenig Verbindung zum Land öffnen
Bill C-3 could open the citizenship doors to people with little connection to Canada
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Our citizenship system is a mess, and court rulings like this do little to help it. A Canadian who was born abroad, who lives abroad and has abroad, at least in my opinion, should not be able to confer Canadian citizenship at birth.
That’s not to say children born abroad to Canadians born abroad shouldn’t be able to get citizenship, but it shouldn’t be instant seeing as they’re now two steps removed from Canada.
Personally, I would love to see us copy Australia’s citizenship system in almost all respect.
The child of an Australian citizen who calls Australia home is born with Aussie citizenship by birth. If the child’s parents get their citizenship by descent, then the child must live in Australia for 2 years before they apply for Aussie citizenship.
Australia also figured out birthright citizenship too. If you’re born in Australia to an Australian or a permanent resident, you’re Australian at birth. If you’re born outside of Australia to a citizen who had birthright citizenship, you’re a citizenship, you’re a citizen. If you’re born to a non-citizen temporary resident, the child has the same visa as the parent and can get citizenship after 10 years.
That way the child of anyone who permanently calls Australia home is a citizen, and the child of a student or someone else who later becomes a PR also gets PR and also has a streamlined way to citizenship, provided they call Australia home.
My friend whose family in this country goes back generations had her citizenship denied because her dad was born abroad when her grandparents worked in the US. And then she also ended up being born abroad when her dad briefly worked in Texas. She’s Canadian. She has a lot of connection to the country. But until the unconstitutional revocation of her status is fully repealed, she has no status here. The fact it’s been recent immigrants denying her access to things in the federal bureaucracy is the icing on the cake.
What does “little connection to the country” even mean anymore? What we’ve done to citizenship is made it so connection to the country don’t actually matter for citizenship. So that’s already the case. Personally, I find the situation stupid. Having multiple generations of family history should matter.
Just makes me want to cry, being a fourth generation Canadian is such an odd feeling, it’s like I’m from nowhere.