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Originally Posted by fredr123
In the CBC article quoted above, the critics of Mr. Solberg have a good point, in my opinion. Attacking the idea of dual citizenship, per se, is not a good idea. Allowing people to hold multiple citizenships is a tremendous benefit to individual people and helps open up whole worlds of opportunity.
What might be a more sensible solution would be to look at making consequential amendments to things like the Income Tax Act and various other statutes that deal with social assistance and public health. Make residency a requirement for access to these services. Ensure that people living abroad with Canadian passports are still contributing financially to these programs so that if/when they access them, they have made a contribution.
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Well...I could live with something like this, however, there are a few problems. How would Canada enforce its tax legislation in foriegn countries. I know they have mutual treaties and agreements, but they will not collect the taxes for the Canadian government. Are you saying that if they do not pay their taxes...they can have their citizenship taken away? Not to mention, a lot of these places do not have a very good tax collecting system and I am sure those governments collect only a portion of the taxes. Not to mention, a lot of those places you can get by on a lot less income than in Canada....so....maybe people can get by on $20,000 CAD.....the foreign government probably only knows about half of that money so...really there would be no income tax collected.
Secondly...the refusal of social services I don;t think would go over very well in Canada. I agree with the idea...but you would never see a hospital turn people away because they didn't pay their taxes. Why not just keep them out to prevent such a situation or make them remain in Canada to contribute to social services?