Fellow Students: Canadian Citizen

fellow students: She learned to skate on a backyard pond and trudged between snowdrifts to school, where she would stand with fellow students to sing the national anthem before class, according to Hamilton Spectator. She used her Canadian passport to travel to South Africa, toting a suitcase sporting the maple leaf, and was later married at a historic trading post on the banks of Winnipeg Red River. At two months old she moved from Mexico with her Canadian parents to a farming community in southern Manitoba. But earlier this year the 36-year-old woman life was upended when she received a letter from Citizenship and Immigration Canada informing her she was no longer a Canadian citizen. "It took my breath away," Funk said in an interview from her home in Squamish, B.C. "I had no idea that anything like this could even happen." She is one of an unknown number of people ensnared in an arcane law that automatically revokes the citizenship of certain Canadians who fail to officially apply to retain their nationality before the age of 28. The rule was abolished by the Conservative government in 2009, but the change wasn't retroactive, so it didn't include anyone who had already turned 28 by then. The little-known policy applies to anyone born abroad between Feb. 15, 1977, and April 16, 1981, to Canadian parents who were also born outside the country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.