Naturalized Citizens: Dual Citizenship Law

Naturalized Citizens Dept: To begin with, such measures would create an invidious distinction between Canadian-born criminal citizens, who could not be stripped of citizenship, and naturalized citizens who could. There would be two classes of punishment for similar crimes, according to Globe and Mail. Taking away citizenship is not something that we do. It is something more often associated with countries like the Soviet Union, which stripped Alexander Solzhenitsyn of his. Canada has a very different tradition. For example, the 1,200 Canadians who went to fight in Spain during that country s civil war did not lose their citizenship and video: Jason Kenney: Consider changes to dual citizenship law Once we were headed down such a path, it might be hard to stop. What about other serious crimes committed abroad, or for that matter within Canada, by naturalized citizens? If a terrorist flunky can be stripped of citizenship, why not also a mass murderer or serial abuser of young children? Indeed, why stop there? (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.