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Did you "Wake Up Canadian" yesterday?

by: Rob "EaBo Clipper" Eno

Sat Apr 18, 2009 at 09:02:19 AM EDT

As some of our readers who've been with us a while know. I am a first generation American citizen, the son of an Acadian immigrant from Kent County in the Province of New Brunswick. By a quirk in Canadian law my brothers were dual citizens with Canada, and I was unable to obtain Canadian citizenship. The law prior to yesterday stated that anyone born after 1947 but before 1977 in a country other than Canada to a Canadian born citizen was not automatically a Canadian citizen, but multiple generations of people born after 1977 were able to claim Canadian Citizenship in basically perpetuity.

This came to a head last year when the Canadian government was responsible for evacuating scores of Canadian citizens who were the descendants of lebanese immigrants that moved back to Lebanon after a generation. Those citizens had never once lived in Canada or even visited. This caused the Conservative government of Stephen Harper to look at the citizenship law for its first major revision since 1977.

The law now stands that any person born to a Canadian born Canadian citizen anywhere in the world holds Canadian Citizenship retroactive to the day of their birth. The Government of Canada produced the following YouTube video to get the word out.

Rob "EaBo Clipper" Eno :: Did you "Wake Up Canadian" yesterday?

I write this because many of the residents of Massachusetts given our strong ties with the Maritime provinces may be affected by this new law. So who knows you like me, may have woken up yesterday Canadian.

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Did you "Wake Up Canadian" yesterday? | 6 comments

The best parts of that video... (0.00 / 0)

have to be, 1.) the dual-language calender (like anyone has those) and 2.) the strategically placed fleur de lis around the room once he 'becomes" Canadian.

Because you can't be Canadian unless you suck up to and coddle the Quebecois!

by: Paul R. Ferro @ Sat Apr 18, 2009 at 11:40:22 AM CDT

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Congrats Eabo (0.00 / 0)

I may soon be joining you as dual citizen, once I get my paperwork situated with my family's native Ireland.

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." -PJ O'Rourke

by: South Shore Republican @ Sat Apr 18, 2009 at 14:23:22 PM CDT

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Have you learned Gaelic? (0.00 / 0)

It's a prerequisite for getting dual-Irish citizenship.

by: Paul R. Ferro @ Sat Apr 18, 2009 at 14:45:31 PM CDT

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Wow, so you won't ahve to pay health care insurance... (0.00 / 0)

...you can get it free...certainly you wouldn't suggest that Canadians have anything infoerior to the US?

Seriously, does this mean you get to vote in their elections?

by: Festus Garvey @ Sun Apr 19, 2009 at 10:44:09 AM CDT

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The Canadian health system is inferior to the US system. If you are healthy or very sick the Canadian system works fine. In conversations with family members if you have what we consider routine health problems, the Canadian system falls apart. They are closing hospitals, routine tests are hard to get and many are turning to private insurance and doctors, as the Supreme Court of Canada has recently said that under the declaration of Rights and Freedoms, Canadians cannot be stopped from seeking out and receiving private medical care.

You can read more about the failings I am talking about here.

I am not sure if I can vote. I would imagine I can. I'll have to register in a swing riding.

by: Rob "EaBo Clipper" Eno @ Sun Apr 19, 2009 at 12:18:35 PM CDT

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