Kevin Klein: Kanada verteilt die Staatsbürgerschaft wie Süßigkeiten; Es besteht die Gefahr, dass etwas, das einst Gewicht hatte, in etwas verwandelt wird, das ohne Rücksicht auf Verbindung, Engagement oder Beitrag weitergegeben wird
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/kevin-klein-canada-hands-out-citizenship-like-candy
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Harper limited citizenship to first generation born abroad, now we have a revolving door. Housing, jobs and general affordability is the price we all pay.
Cue all of the „consequences of my actions“ memes
Say what you will about immigration in this country and temp foreign workers etc, saying we hand out citizenship like candy is just straight up false lol. The pipeline to get your citizenship is like 5-10 years assuming you have money for lawyers and things go your way.
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**In Brief:**
* Reports from the United States indicate that millions of Americans may now have a pathway to Canadian citizenship through distant ancestry.
* Media coverage is already encouraging people to explore their family history and apply. Some stories even point to celebrities who could qualify based on relatives from generations ago.
* Whether it is a well-known public figure or someone unknown, the principle is the same. Citizenship is being opened up to individuals who may have no intention of ever living in Canada, contributing to its economy, or participating in its communities.
I wonder if part of the trade negotiations with the Americans will be tightening up our immigration?
It’s a true commitment. This is horseshit.
Its war on working class
This is rich, coming from a nation with a colonial history.
So when white people came and colonized the land – that’s all fair game.
Now we gatekeeping citizenship and closing doors for those who wants to choose Canada to be their new home.
I thought Canada stood for freedom?
This is “opinion” piece is laced with white nationalist sentiment.
This is ridiculous. These people will only exploit the benefits being a Canadian citizen garners. Our health care costs and systems under distress will only get worse with American people claiming Canadian citizenship .They will then head home to enjoy the sunshine and contributing nothing to our economy or tax base. Make no mistake, we are encouraging more Canadians of convenience.
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Century Initiative approved 👍
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Well Carney’s cabinet is stacked with people who support the canada century initiative, so this is not surprising
Lol this reads like it was written by chatgpt. At least write it with something less obvious. The ‚This isn’t X. It’s Y.‘ thing is an instant red flag when it’s used this much.
Also hasn’t citizenship always been pretty easy? It’s the immigration part that was hard. But we need more immigrants than ever in order to maintain out boomers social safety nets, so we’ll mass immigrate rather than raise taxes, or wealth tax. Wealth tax was the obvious answer but here we are.
Immigrants are a net increase in job growth, GDP, housing, regardless of your opinion, we have facts. And the fact of the matter is that immigration is really good for everyone if we do it properly. The problems arise when we single source immigration and create pockets of non-Canadian values or abuse immigrants. Which we did, but we did it because of the cons and liberals wearing kneepads for corporations and business interests. I love neoliberalism.
The only successful shit we’ve pushed through in the last 30 years for the average Canadian has been what… Dental care, pharmacare, daycare, some climate stuff, and child benefit. Most of which we can thank the NDP and Bloc for. I swear to god they fucked the country on purpose to sell a shit cure when people have opinions like this.
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Wait till conservatives find out Conservatives handed out free land in the 1950s to anyone who wanted to move to Canada.
I know multiple people in the past 10 years that have gone from work visas to citizenship. It was not easy, or quick. In fact it is quite hard, so i dunno why he is lying.
To be fair, if Columbus would discover canada in current era, he would have a great reason to think he is in India.
Citizenship has always been woefully easy to get. It’s a *little* harder now, but at peak Trudeaumania, people were getting citizenship off of a 2 year bullshit diploma and a job at Chipotle.
Kevin Klein knows a thing or two about exploiting a dubious claim to citizenship.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/kevin-klein-defends-himself-métis-heritage-1.6923310
TLDR: He faked Métis citizenship.
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Before reacting to the headline, it’s worth understanding what this article is actually about; not immigration through the standard naturalization process, but Bill C-3, which removes the generational cap on citizenship by descent. Those are very different conversations.
Klein raises a legitimate philosophical question: should someone who has never lived in Canada, pays no taxes here, and has no intention of moving here hold full citizenship simply due to distant lineage? That’s a fair debate, and ironically, it’s one that also matters to immigrants who spent 5–10 years navigating one of the world’s more demanding naturalization processes. The fairness concern cuts both ways.
Where I push back is on the framing. “Like candy” is designed to provoke, not inform. Citizenship by descent exists in dozens of countries (Ireland, Italy, Germany) often with fewer restrictions. Canada isn’t doing something radical here. And using the 2006 Lebanon evacuation as the main cautionary tale is a bit of a stretch when we’re talking about a generational policy shift.
The real debate is what citizenship should mean, legal lineage vs. lived contribution, this is worth having seriously. The alarm-bell rhetoric makes that harder, not easier.
Yep. It’s been like this for a while. Just look at the situation in Lebanon in the 2000’s when there was conflict in Lebanon and all the “Canadians for Convenience” that were living there and crying that the government wasn’t helping them enough to get out of the country. It’s got way, way worse since then.
This is why Opinion Columns need to be takenw ith a grain of salt. They are opinions. Always light on facts and carrying the intent to push a narrative.
I mean Liberals using the FREE VISA for all as a way to stay in office …and continue to ruin the country beyond repairs, knowing that their offshore accounts will allow them the politicians to bugger off somewhere exotic, while chasing a popstar’s skirt
I am a Canadian immigrant. It cost me thousands of $$$ and six years of documents, jumping through hoops and establishing residency. I must have missed the candy line…