Dual Citizens: Department of Foreign Affairs

Department of Foreign Affairs: Scale back aid for dual citizens, bureaucrats advise Ottawa, according to Globe and Mail. Doug Saunders Turks wonder how we missed Erdogans slide into demagoguery The Video It must have sounded like a good idea in the back office. Someone at the Department of Foreign Affairs noticed that Canadas embassies have long lineups in their downstairs consular offices, where Canadians travelling and living abroad seek help with travel emergencies, medical problems, arrests and legal troubles abroad, foreign visa hassles and sometimes flight from major disasters and military conflicts. It costs money to staff those lineups. And someone observed that many of those people in the lineup have been away from Canada for a long time. Some of them have other passports. More Related to this Story DOUG SAUNDERS Was our Afghan saga useless or worse? (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.