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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.
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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Like Agamemnnon noted, a residency requirement may be a hardship on some people. Members of my national association have had to resign because they could not meet the residency requirement.
Filling a Canadian tax return every few years could aliviate a lot of bad feelings. Would there be as much resentment towards those evacuees concerned if it was widely known that they paid Canadian taxes while out of country?
On a side note, the issue of letting non-citizens vote in the municiple elections has gotten some play here in TO. They pay taxes (sales and property taxes at least) yet do not get a benefit that citizens who live overseas or in the south enjoy at no cost.
OR, how about the recent Italian elections where Canadian Italians could run for the Italian Parliment? I wonder how Italians in Italy feel about that?