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Mar 17 14 6:52 PM
vic ticious wrote:the indifference is deafening!...
- Then head to Listen Up, Canada! and get that free hearing test and then check out their latest bargains on hearing aids.
- For me, the dual citizenship issue is one of many issues and not at the top of the list attendant in the lengthy and complex and heated negotiations that will be necessary in the highly unlikely event that Marois and the PQ win a comfortable majority AND call for the third referendum in 34 years despite Quebecers general indifference to the matter and current 60-40 split in favour of remaining in Canada AND actually win said referendum with a clear majority on a clear question in a transparently open and honest vote after a lengthy and fair campaign.
- Some countries allow dual citizenship and most don't. I personally would lean toward cancelling our current policy allowing dual citizenships because I am tired of Canada being played as a country of convenience by so many foreigners who have such limited attachment to and interest and presence in and loyalty toward this country and use their second (Canadian) citizenship mainly as an insurance policy and safe sanctuary if crisis develop in their country of origin and as a place for them and their kids and parents to score health care and education and other entitlements not available to them at the same quality and price in their "real" country. Perhaps you'll recall the crisis in Lebanon about 7 years ago and the strident demands from Lebanese who had Canadian passports but rarely if ever graced us with their presence that our government immediately make planes available to transport them home, free of course, to Canada so they could wait out the hostilities and return to Lebanon as soon as things quieted down there. While I'm open to someone making the case that there are net benefits to Canada from having a dual citizenship policy, nobody has made the case sufficiently to me.
- One thing I do feel more passionately about is the practice especially among the moral and cultural relativists among us (usually the same lefties who swallowed Trudeau's divisive and failed multi-cultural policy that he, himself, renounced on his final months of life) in high political office who hold dual citizenships. I'd give them a choice to either choose Canada and Canadian politics or keep both passports and withdraw from Canadian political office. It is unacceptable to me that the people who would purport to govern us might have a conflict of interest between Canada and their other place of citizenship and also might actually much prefer to be there instead of here and only deign to "honour" us with their august presence for selfish reasons.
- It bugged me, for example, that the Chretien era poofster Pierre Pettigrew had French and Canadian citizenships and clearly preferred France and especially chasing after queer tail in Paris, spending ever more time there on our dime even when he was a cabinet minister in the Canadian government. Likewise, it pissed me off that Backpack Boy Stephan "doose yous tink dat is his eesy fors to set priorities" Dion was a dual citizen of France and Canada. And currently, I think that Tom "The Bomb" Mulcair should make it crystal clear that his loyalty and heart and choice is Canada by returning his French passport. I realize that the more wordly left-libs among us see nothing wrong in this because, after all, its all relative and Canada is no better or more preferable than Zimbabwe or North Korea so why not have several citizenships or even become, as PET used to brag, "a citizen of the world". The same logic led to the Gliberals cynically parachuting Count Ziggy Ignatief into Canada after a more than thirty year absence so that he could start at the top and if this didn't work just bugger off again to the US, the UK or wherever the spirit moved him.
- If anybody wants to make the case for the net benefits to Canada of allowing dual citizenship, I am (in the words of Prince Charles) all ears.
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