Bars Applicants: Decision Today and Canadian Citizenship

bars applicants: She noted that citizenship revocation is an important decision that bars applicants from re-applying for 10 years while some could even be rendered stateless, according to CBC. Given the importance of Canadian citizenship and the severe consequences that could result from its loss, the principles of fundamental justice require a discretionary review of all the circumstances of the case, wrote Gagn . Among those circumstances, she said, is a consideration of humanitarian and compassionate grounds. In a decision today, Justice Jocelyne Gagn said the provisions in question, which don't violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, do violate Canada's Bill of Rights in a way that can not be avoided by interpretation. Gagn then ruled three sections of the previous government's Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act SCCA inoperative. It also overturns part of the law that allowed the government to revoke someone's citizenship without a hearing. That means going forward, ministers of Citizenship and Immigration will no longer have the power to decide on their own to revoke someone's citizenship if they feel it was obtained by lying or concealing information. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.