Court Hearing: Status and Bill C

court hearing: Among other things, the legislation would repeal a provision that strips dual citizens of their Canadian status if convicted of terrorism, treason or espionage, according to CBC. It has been applied to one person Zakaria Amara, convicted for his role in a 2006 terror plot in Toronto. Bill C-6 is designed to repeal many of the previous Conservative government's changes to how people become citizens and how they can lose that status. Far more people lose their citizenship because it was obtained fraudulently, and the Senate wants to amend the bill in order to give those people a chance at a court hearing before their status is stripped away. Liberals considering moratorium on stripping citizenship without hearing Liberals revoking citizenship at much higher rate than Conservatives Hussen's hand was partially forced by a recent Federal Court decision that said people have a right to challenge the revocation of their citizenship, although predecessor John McCallum had earlier suggested he would support the amendment. Hussen said the government will accept that proposal, albeit with some modifications of its own, including giving the minister the authority to make decisions when an individual requests it. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.