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Originally Posted by ken0042
I see your point Agamemnon; but there should be some sort of "price" to be a Canadian. Maybe have a rule that you can only renew your passport overseas once; and then to continue it you have to do so in person in Canada. That way if somebody has left Canada for over 10 years then they are obviously no longer a citizen.
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Ok... but what if they can't get citizenship in the place they're residing? You can't revoke someones citizenship leaving them stateless, that would be brutal. They couldn't obtain a passport from any country, couldn't travel... if that country wants to deport them for whatever reason they'd have nowhere to go (jail?). The nice thing about citizenship is it is your right to have it. If the government could choose to take it from you... that would be bad.
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To a lesser extent I see this for myself; I've lived in Alberta for so long I no longer consider myself a "Manitoban." If Manitoba started to hand out prosperity cheques like we did last year (it could happen; they have an NDP gov't) then I wouldn't feel entitled because I have not contributed anything to the province in the last decade.
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Fair enough... but you can always move back to Manitoba, move to another province, and don't need a passport to do it. If you were living in Japan for 3 years and Canada decided to revoke your citizenship, you'd be screwed if you weren't also a Japanese citizen. It doesn't seem fair to make you eat the cost of air travel to come back to Canada every year just to maintain your citizenship, that can be quite the expensive burden (not to mention if you're working it could be damaging to your career to take a ton of time off each year).
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I also think some of the outrage comes from news stories showing people mad that they got rescued and all they got for free food on the ship was sandwiches. (and other acts of thanklessness.)
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Well... I'm sure there were some people who were appreciative at being evacuated, no? Its not like they're all ungrateful jerks who hate Canada and just use and abuse the system, that might be jumping to too extreme a conclusion. Complaining about sandwiches for food sounds pretty Canadian to me
