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Originally Posted by Rerun
If you were born in Canada, the government, or courts, or whoever, shouldn't have the ability to revoke your citizenship. However, if you weren't..... that could be a different story. Receiving your Canadian citizenship is a privilege, not a right and privileges should be able to be withdrawn.
That said, I would feel a lot more comfortable with this if the government had to prove its case in court, before someone's citizenship could be revoked.
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Citizenship is an interesting thing. For example, why should it be a right for someone who is born here while his or her mother is on a layover at Pearson, but a privilege for someone that spends years and thousands of dollars trying to immigrate?