Who will be affected by the changes to Canadian citizenship?
Anyone who holds or is eligible for another citizenship is vulnerable to the citizenship stripping provisions of Bill C-24 if they commit any of the crimes included in the Bill. The dual citizenship can be due to the fact that you immigrated from a country that lets you keep the citizenship after attaining Canadian Citizenship or because you were born outside Canada and are eligible to get the Citizenship of that country. It also include the children of those immigrants as some countries allow the citizenship of the offspring of all citizens as their birth right.
Why will this turn dual citizens into ‘second class’ citizens?
Now if turn this concept of who gets stripped upside down, this law essentially says that some Canadians, who have no other citizenship and no eligibility for citizenship anywhere else, are Canadians forever! Other Canadians, including dual citizens – who have Canadian citizenship and the citizenship of another country at the same time – could possibly have their citizenship taken away, even if they were born in Canada just because of their back ground. It goes against what Canada stands for. We are talking about exclusion rather than inclusion. Even if government never takes their citizenship away, the fact remains that their citizenship is not permanent and secure.
Why does the law only apply to dual citizens and those people who are eligible to obtain another citizenship?
According to international Humanitarian law, it’s illegal for any country to take away anyone’s citizenship leaving them “stateless”. Meaning they do not belong to any country. So Bill C-24’s citizenship revocation clauses apply to only Canadians with dual citizenship, because stripping their Canadian citizenship will still leave them with other citizenship.
Under what conditions the Canadian Citizenship can be revoked?
Bill C-24 lists certain criteria for revoking Citizenship, like being convicted of or are suspected of involved in activities that endanger Canada and its interests. Examples can be taking part in armed offence against Canada or supporting/providing help in such offence. Regardless, dual citizens now have weaker rights of citizenship simply because it is possible to take their citizenship away. Legal experts say that there is no stopping the government on adding more crimes to this list in future as the law has already been passed and it is only a matter of updating it.
Does this really apply to Canadians who don’t have another citizenship, but could be eligible for another citizenship?
Like mentioned above, International laws stops a country from stripping a person of its citizenship for fear of leaving them “stateless” but Canadian Citizens who are born on Canadian soil but are eligible for citizenship of another country due to their parents and background are vulnerable to this clause. They may never have never visited of that other country and they may have only know Canada as their home, they could still be stripped of citizenship if convicted or suspected of eligible crimes.
Anyone who holds or is eligible for another citizenship is vulnerable to the citizenship stripping provisions of Bill C-24 if they commit any of the crimes included in the Bill. The dual citizenship can be due to the fact that you immigrated from a country that lets you keep the citizenship after attaining Canadian Citizenship or because you were born outside Canada and are eligible to get the Citizenship of that country. It also include the children of those immigrants as some countries allow the citizenship of the offspring of all citizens as their birth right.
Why will this turn dual citizens into ‘second class’ citizens?
Now if turn this concept of who gets stripped upside down, this law essentially says that some Canadians, who have no other citizenship and no eligibility for citizenship anywhere else, are Canadians forever! Other Canadians, including dual citizens – who have Canadian citizenship and the citizenship of another country at the same time – could possibly have their citizenship taken away, even if they were born in Canada just because of their back ground. It goes against what Canada stands for. We are talking about exclusion rather than inclusion. Even if government never takes their citizenship away, the fact remains that their citizenship is not permanent and secure.
Why does the law only apply to dual citizens and those people who are eligible to obtain another citizenship?
According to international Humanitarian law, it’s illegal for any country to take away anyone’s citizenship leaving them “stateless”. Meaning they do not belong to any country. So Bill C-24’s citizenship revocation clauses apply to only Canadians with dual citizenship, because stripping their Canadian citizenship will still leave them with other citizenship.
Under what conditions the Canadian Citizenship can be revoked?
Bill C-24 lists certain criteria for revoking Citizenship, like being convicted of or are suspected of involved in activities that endanger Canada and its interests. Examples can be taking part in armed offence against Canada or supporting/providing help in such offence. Regardless, dual citizens now have weaker rights of citizenship simply because it is possible to take their citizenship away. Legal experts say that there is no stopping the government on adding more crimes to this list in future as the law has already been passed and it is only a matter of updating it.
Does this really apply to Canadians who don’t have another citizenship, but could be eligible for another citizenship?
Like mentioned above, International laws stops a country from stripping a person of its citizenship for fear of leaving them “stateless” but Canadian Citizens who are born on Canadian soil but are eligible for citizenship of another country due to their parents and background are vulnerable to this clause. They may never have never visited of that other country and they may have only know Canada as their home, they could still be stripped of citizenship if convicted or suspected of eligible crimes.
