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Breaking News: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/court-grants-government-another-extension-to-fix-unconstitutional-citizenship-law-1.7241903?cmp=rss Not sure how the gap in the stay will be handled. I will be moving forward with an urgent appeal for a grant for my child. Perhaps they accept a...

Thanks for the explanation on S-245 for the procedural details and the comments on Canlii. Love it. As for the ex post facto nature of C-71, as it stands now, I am good with most of the verbiage. In my opinion after dealing with the US, I am not against the way they do things, even if it is...

Ineligible for certain jobs and clearances, can't be president or vice president. You can also have your citizenship revoked in certain circumstances. Also ineligible for jury service on certain panels. You have to have been a citizen for 7 or 9 years for serving in congress depending if it is...

In the US you cannot pass any ex post facto laws whether criminal or civil from the first article. Procedure can change though, and in arbitrary matters like citizenship there can be a degree of it. There are SCOTUS rulings regarding the edges of it, but in the US is less forgiving of moving...

The parliament has a penchant for the ex post facto though which is always a concern. In American law it is enshrined in the very first article of the constitution that such things can't happen, although states and local governments love to try. Since we are talking potentially about people who...

Nice catch. Publicized today, but I wondered if it was already written not published so I looked at archive sites. A CMS modified date does not mean something was publicly viewable. There is an archive.is from June 9th of the same text. I didn't find it until today, but perhaps this is what...

The grant can affect someone's rights in Canada if the date of citizenship matters or being 'native born' ever comes into play. In the US you cannot get certain security clearances for example if born abroad without a CRBA. You effectively get a grant with inviting your child to the US with an...

This morning the IRCC posted a bulletin regarding the Lost Canadians lawsuit stay and Conservatives blocking unanimous consent on C-71 which will delay passage until the fall most likely. The government is annoyed and it appears not seeking an extension of the stay. As of now the government has...

Je vais m'assurer de faire deux fois plus de bruit avec mon hélicoptère au-dessus du Québec. Peut-être que je devrais le faire au Vermont pour pouvoir voter moi-même pour la sécession. Out, out, out!

For sure, it's ambiguous in the law. Not sure how the housing crisis is solved if it's cheaper for Canadians to commute by helicopter (nothing fancy, just a piston Robinson) in some instances from the US than to own a comparable home, but maybe it's a start. The interesting thing here is they...

This sounds like a pretty good scam to get the best of both worlds. I am wondering if you even have to go through immigration at all in the peace parks. Technically you can enter Canada without an immigration check. I wonder if this would count. There's a lot of curmudgeons here who might scoff...

I'll give you 1931 if you want to pedantic, but you can also argue 1982 is when it stopped being a dominion. At this point, kind of with the 54.40 or fight people if independence means nothing. As an ethnic American I am just waiting to be liberated. If the USA struggles with unrest and breaks...

I have a non-Canadian spouse who is American (she's going to get PR soon). What if we lived next to the border in say Point Roberts/New Hampshire were you can just walk across the border into Canada every day. Would this count as physical presence each day entering Canada, or is there a midnight...

I spoke to Marc Miller's office and a conservative senator's clerk. Child is going to be grandfathered as a citizen, the presence test is for those born after C-71 passes. The Senate wants children who receive citizenship after their adoption is complete to be exempt from the substantial...

They can freedom of information all documents related to his immigration. Takes about 8 months. It's shocking what I got back in detail for my family from around this time. It will have all the numbers. I think from the public naturalization lists he is a citizen, but it's a common name. The...

They probably are a Canadian citizen in 8 days. Be nicer to people. I found a matching name naturalized, but agree that's for another archive site. Citizenship will transmit to them.

I just want to bump this thread to the haters. I haven't lived in Canada yet, but it's likely my child born abroad will become Canadian too with chain migration. Canada has only existed since 1950, so it's fair that it goes all the way back. I wanted to clarify too about what matters. If a...

Turns out I am today, so all of this is moot. Mother was already registered and confused me. It's going to take too long to sort to take the job offer, but at least I can drain the system if I need to in the future. Nobody is having fun here. :-(

Sorry, meant Liberals. Lived in UK too long. It's all communism to me. Better dead than red.

Yes, surprisingly seriously. :-) This is the discussion I was looking for, good, bad, or ugly. That seems like the winner for the adoption idea, but I still am not sure it wouldn't work if the angle was obfuscated a bit. The circumvent term seems to be a pretty solid argument for the...