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Originally Posted by GioforPM
What athletes are you thinking of with that statement?
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Eugene Zhen Wang is one, but I think there were others in the past.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/feds-u...veals-1.995247
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The Canadian Olympic Committee urged Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's office to fast-track the Canadian citizenship of a Chinese-born table tennis star in time for him to compete for Canada at the summer Games, a newly released document shows.
A short time later, Eugene Zhen Wang, the top-ranked table tennis player in North America, was a Canadian citizen.
Kenney's office said Wang qualified for something called "five-four citizenship." That refers to Section 5(4) of the Citizenship Act, which states that the minister may grant Canadian citizenship "to alleviate cases of special and unusual hardship or to reward services of an exceptional value to Canada."
The minister's office says "five-four citizenship" has been awarded roughly 500 times going back to 1977, often to athletes who have to travel around the world, and therefore do not meet the specific requirements for Canadian citizenship.
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