Action plan for introducing amendments to the citizenship act bill

[MR Stephen Harper]

I created this thread, so we can take collective actions to make sure there will be some amendments in the citizenship act bill to make it more efficient.

I am concerned about 1- increasing the residence requirements to 4 out of 6 years and 2- eliminating the time spent in Canada before PR.

I realized that the second point has not been mentioning in the media and even when I listened to the opposition leaders on CBC, they did not mention that. Now, I came up with a set of actions that we can take:

1-Email our MPs and let them know the parts of the bill that concern us. You can find your MP here (openparliament.ca/politicians/). At the top right, you can search using your postal code.


You are just wasting your time buddy! Rather get straight with the inevitable changes that will change the citizenship act ,talk to a lawyer as to what it truelly means and its impacts to you and gather the required documents if these changes will affect u u! NO need to waste your time by doing things that wont work,an overwhelming majority of Canadians support this bill by the way..Accept the rules and laws that an elected gvt is enacting.

2-contact media (CBC, CTV, news websites) and let them know about the parts that concerns us. On Feb. 6th, immigration minister was on CBC and I was shocked about some non-important questions that were asked.

3- I saw a petition organized by another poster on the forum. We can improve and support it (sashali78, please provide the link here)

Please share what other actions we can take.

 

[proudcanadian2014]

I think you are 100% right. "Intent to reside" clause will create two tier citizens.
Canadian citizens by birth or who get their citizenship before this bill passes will have the right for mobility. They can leave Canada and come back without giving an "intent to reside" promise.
There are lots of posts on this forum about this clause. From my point, it is not even clear from the bill what obligations/consequences come with this clause.

you also forget about " intend to reside". This will make two types of citizenship

 

[hamad0313]

for RQ maybe they should provide voluntarily exit stamp on airports so that suspicions could be resolved without having to fill RQ

 

[Newbie2014]

I do agree ! This is the most hurting clause.Just like a slave after getting citizenship.What if someone gets a scholarship at Harvard or MIT or gets a job at World Bank after getting citizenship......should he/she simply let go these lucrative opportunities to save his Canadain citizenship?

It is un-enforceable as it is against the Charter. It is just posturing by the Tories. "Red meat" for their base which likes the money that immigrants bring, but do not like the immigrants bringing it. Ignore them; they can't do anything more than posture. The courts will protect your mobility rights if they try to do anything about it. And the Tories won't be in power forever....