Es kann nicht zwei Arten kanadischer Staatsbürger geben
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-there-cant-be-two-types-of-canadian-citizen/
Es kann nicht zwei Arten kanadischer Staatsbürger geben
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-there-cant-be-two-types-of-canadian-citizen/
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>The Conservatives are warning that a bill to confer citizenship to people born abroad to foreign-born Canadians will cheapen the value of citizenship. They say it could open the door to „Canadians of convenience“ who want a passport but have little connection to the country.
>With support from the Bloc Québécois, the Conservatives added amendments to Bill C-3 that would make it harder for these „Lost Canadians“ to qualify for passports. A vote on the revised bill is expected soon.
Why is this bad? And how would this „cheapen the value of our citizenship“? It kind of implies that the value of Canada’s citizenship is based on scarcity, and not the freedoms and rights Canadians enjoy.
I don’t see why we need to seperate the two. If there’s an issue with foreign born Canadians, it shouldn’t matter if their parents were foreign born or Canadian born. There’s plenty of Canadian born Canadians with no ties to the country and plenty of foreign born Canadians that spent most of their lives here.
Limit it based on something in their parents control like how much time they spent in Canada or something rather than where their parents birthed them.
Like who the fck came up with this dumb measuring system anyways? Was it to cater to their own very specific personal situation or something?
My daughter was born in Japan because that’s where I lived. She’s lived in Canada from the age of 2 but now as a 26 year old has a US boyfriend. Under the proposed change she could not pass citizenship to her children if born outside of Canada. My son born in Canada two years earlier would not have any limit on citizen ship. If a change to citizenship is needed, I hope they think it through. Harper did something similar, but it was rescinded.
the value of one’s own citizenship isn’t degraded simply because another person is sufficiently attenuated from Canada to not qualify for citizenship.
I am a citizen of a country I have spent less than two months of my life in, my mother spent even less in and my father who gained citizenship by marriage to my mother has never set foot in. The last time any family member lived there as a full time resident was during the second world war.
That is ridiculous in any country.
The problem with this argument is that there aren’t two classes of citizens.
A Canadian who has chosen to live abroad should not expect to pass down citizenship indefinitely. However, they can *regain this right at any time* by simply returning to Canada.