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Originally Posted by PyramidsofMars
It's cute that you try to suggest that I put Canada down, but I never said anything of the sort. I said I was sad that Canadians were not as engaged in their culture and history, and that I felt we lacked real vibrancy. I'm doing the very opposite of putting Canada down. I'm saying how wonderful I think it is, and that I wish more people realized that. The notion that I need a Canadian passport is utterly laughable. I have a Swiss passport by birth to a Swiss mother. Do you have any clue what that means, the benefits it offers? I might rightly be called a Swiss citizen of convience (if I 'used' the country in any way, but I don't, I use only my Canadian passport), but I think that citizenship is my birth right. My life simply worked out in the way that my family preferred to settle in my father's home turf (Canada, regardless of what you may be suggesting) than my mother's. Despite your repeated attempts to link non-whiteness with first-generation recent immigration, specifically with that which treats Canada as a doormat, it is just not the case.
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Why should citizenship be a birthright that you keep with you for all eternity? If you don't contribute to a nation and you only keep the passport as a get out of jail free card (literally in some peoples cases), I have a problem with that, the biggest reason being that it costs the taxpayers money. It isn't a race issue because I think that Brenda Martin falls into the same boat as those who were escaping from Lebanon only to return as soon as fighting ceased.