If the example in the article was not sufficient to fall under the charter, then believe me when I say that the CIC lawsuit is even MORE unlikely to fall under the charter.st-cnncomes said:This story cannot be used as a yardstick to determing whether the canadian connection is suffecient or insuffecient. I hope the lawyers are hitting this point. What I've mentioned earlier ie, Applying under the rules to CIC, passing the points system, waiting at the behest of CIC, and having relatives who are canadian citizens are more than sufficient grounds to show our canadian connections, actually the onus to prove otherwise is not on us but on CIC.
The only thing the CIC lawsuit has is people who sent in an application. That's it - nothing more. And the two men in the article were already LIVING in Canada for several years - and the supreme court clearly said that they were not entitled to charter rights and protections. So if you can't take that example and try to weigh it against the CIC lawsuit, then you're being obtuse on purpose, or you're living in a world of complete denial.