Canadian Expat Association asked to come before Citizenship Standing Committee
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There’s a new online petition being circulated, this time launched by an adoption agency - while it mainly speaks for adopted children, it also mentions foreign-born children of Canadian expats. http://www.PetitionOnline.com/C397/petition.html
Am I the only expat who sees the value in this legislation? I figure that if my Tokyo-born son never lives in Canada that his children should of course lose their rights to Canadian citizenship.
I say this even though this very thing happened to me with regards to my father’s German citizenship. My father is German born, but I didn’t inherit a right to German citizenship. And I’ve never thought that I should; why should the Germans include me when I’ve never lived there, can’t adequately speak the language, and don’t follow events in that country.
To me this legislation makes perfect sense. The situation in Lebanon that sparked this change was disgusting.
I think I have quite much ties with Canada even though I have been living abroad. My husband and I returned to Canada when my husband takes Sabbatical, and we filed taxes on our international incomes, we have been financially blessing individuals, organizations and charities in Canada. We do all these because of our love for Canada. But now I feel my country betrayed me.
There are always people who are “something of convenience”. But it is not an excuse to then try to penalize everybody including the innocent ones. A likewise example, there are people in Canada who never left Canada, also never paid taxes, but freeriding welfare. Then, to avoid the freeriding, do we just cancel the welfare to penalize those who truthfully pay for their pension and health insurance?