MasterGeek said:Would you object or support this bill if you were already a Canadian citizen ? Wouldn't you think that there too many immigrants arriving and taking the jobs of citizens like you and that's it's too easy to get citizenship, which devaluates your Canadian passport ?
Once I become a Canadian citizen, is there a way to inform the Canadian authorities that I have renounced my original citizenship so that I can be protected from any arbitrary revokation of my Canadian citizenship that could be made by error ?
What if the original country doesn't have a process for renouncing citizenship ? Would a formal declaration to the Canadian authorities that I repudiated my original citizenship/country be enough to be considered a non-dual citizen ?
In order:
1) No, I wouldn't. I support immigration as both a practical benefit to Canada and a basic human right. If every immigrant took a Canadian job, Canada wouldn't be accepting 250,000 people per year.
2) My Canadian passport will be valuable to me because Canada admits immigrants, I'm proud of that.
3) No, there is no way to inform Canada that you are solely Canadian. If you're worried that your citizenship has been secretly revoked (a very peculiar worry), then you should call up the embassy before you travel using a Canadian passport.
4) No, if your original country considers you a citizen, Canada doesn't care if you insist that you aren't.