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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
There needs to be a residency requirment to retain ones citizenship for those who have naturalized to Canada. There are very very few people who were not born in Canada but live else where but have only Canadian citizenship. That arguement is just not a starter.
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I'm talking about people who were born as Canadian citizens. If you revoke their citizenship because they don't come back every 10 years, or some other reason, thats wrong and impossible. The argument is valid.
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I can understand that citizenship cannot be taken away if you were born in Canada....but if you moved here, became a CC and then took off back home for 20 years only to be able to have your children Canadians and to retire in Canada with full paid health care....well....thats a pile of donkey ****.
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I guess... I'm not really all that concerned, if they become Canadian citizens, thats what they are. The law is that it cannot be taken away except for specific circumstances that I've posted in this thread. Once you've 'earned' it, its yours for life, no exceptions (except those posted above). I don't see the real issue... you're better off residing here than pretty much anywhere else in the world, if they choose to go back to their first country of origin and live there while maintaining their citizenship I don't see the big hangup. Are we constantly bailing these people out of disaster after disaster at incredible cost to Canada? Not really...