Hityl92 said:
HeyCANADIANZ said:Dear folks,
Just joined this forum yesterday but have been following up this thread for last couple of weeks.
It seems that a lot of you are eager to get bill C-6 passed mainly because of 3/5 rule. As a matter of fact, this change will not have a huge effect on new or recent citizens as compared to other aspect of the Bill.
The MOST important reason we should support Bill C-6 and that it repeals Bill C-24 which created two classes of citizenship, in simple words: immigrants who acquire citizenship are second class citizens vs. born sole Canadian nationals are first class. It became easier for second class citizens to lose their Canadian Nationality vs. first class who can never lose Nationality.
As far as 3/5 or 4/6 rule, we all know that during 3/5 rule application processing time was about 2 year for normal applications, which will likely happen as flood of applications are received by CIC as soon as 3/5 rule come into force.
I recently helped my relatives in applying their citizenship under current rules, here are the timeline in real-time which seems reasonably quick:
We received your application for Canadian citizenship (grant of citizenship) on February 27, 2017.
We sent you correspondence acknowledging receipt of your application(s), and a study book called Discover Canada on March 7, 2017.
We started processing your application on March 9, 2017.
We sent you a notice on March 29, 2017 to appear and write the citizenship test on May 10, 2017
Hope it helps a lot of you
They technically weren't consecutive requests:__jack_br__ said:
This is the reason the previous immigration minister said the bill was fine at it was (without the amendments). Because he knew the Cons would try filibuster or stall the bill. As we all know, c24 was passed in record time because it's a bill driven by fear or negative emotions. As much as I want c6 to come into law over the next few weeks, I loathe the idea of being a second class citizen, especially because of the long-term risk to my children.Hey said:
I think that it's never a good sign once politicians begin making overtures to justifications & rationalisations for the possibility of imminent failure on their part. After Thursday's drama, C-6 seems to now be in real danger of degenerating into a highly regrettable political farce. She's obviously right that the Senate proponents & supporters of the Bill have no formal leader, but there's an absolute wealth of hard-won Senate experience all around them (i.e., surrounding Omidvar & Jaffer), but they need to have the gumption & initiative to ask for help; the Government's desire for good 'optics' for this Bill's passage through the Senate (i.e., by ethnicity firstly, & secondly by gender) is unlikely to want to show the grand & experienced old white male senators bailing-out some less able colleagues. So hopefully there's some urgent conferencing & consulting going on right now behind-the-scenes over this weekend in terms of strategising ahead of Tuesday's Senate session; if not, then C-6 seems doomed to fall to the wily ways of the devious, clever, highly motivated & determined Conservative Caucus.CANADIANZ said:Sen. Mobina JafferVerified account @SenJaffer
"A lot of frustration #C6. We also are frustrated. Remember we are not an organised caucus as Tories.They have a leader and party. We do not"
1:38 PM - 31 Mar 2017
Clearly shows frustration of Lib senators and I think conservatives are going to 'exploit' this even more!
I think that what he's getting at / implying is that if some Ottawa bureaucrat can void a dual citizen's Canadian citizenship for treasonous offences, then what could stop, in years to come, these same faceless but conventionally number-ID'd Ottawa bureaucrats from voiding dual citizens' Canadian citizenship for other things, such as old age, work accident / disability, believing in climate change, Liberal Party membership, etc.PMM said:
