Report: Law Strips Thousands of Their Canadian Citizenship

[KEmperor]

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Up to 20,000 Canadians may have unknowingly lost their citizenship by failing to celebrate their 24th birthdays in Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Wednesday.

An obscure provision in that nation's Citizenship Act — on the books from 1947 to 1977 — automatically stripped citizenship from Canadians who celebrated their 24th birthday outside the country within those dates without signing the proper form, CBC News said.

Now as Canadians rush to get passports to comply with regulations requiring them for entry into the United States, some are finding they are no longer Canadians in good standing.

Septuagenarian Barbara Porteous discovered last year while applying for a passport that she had lost her citizenship, CBC News reported.

"These documents confirm you were a Canadian citizen, but you ceased being a Canadian citizen on June 14, 1960, the day following your 24th birthday," a letter from Citizenship and Immigration read.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246288,00.html
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/01/23/citizenship-passports.html


I must say, this is a really messed up situation.

[Joe Republic]

what

[KEmperor]

what

Apparently if you didn't celebrate your 24th birthday in Canada, they kicked you out of the club.

[Gabu]

what

Apparently if you didn't celebrate your 24th birthday in Canada, they kicked you out of the club.

It's very exclusive.  Everyone wants in.  We can't just take any old riffraff off the street who thinks that their 24th birthday is too good for this country.

[NewFederalist]

what

Apparently if you didn't celebrate your 24th birthday in Canada, they kicked you out of the club.

It's very exclusive.  Everyone wants in.  We can't just take any old riffraff off the street who thinks that their 24th birthday is too good for this country.

I wonder what happens to Canadian forces serving in Afganistan should they just happen to turn 24... hmmm...

[Gabu]

what

Apparently if you didn't celebrate your 24th birthday in Canada, they kicked you out of the club.

It's very exclusive.  Everyone wants in.  We can't just take any old riffraff off the street who thinks that their 24th birthday is too good for this country.

I wonder what happens to Canadian forces serving in Afganistan should they just happen to turn 24... hmmm...

This law has not been on the books since 1977.  It only applies to people who had the misfortune of being out of the country for their 24th birthday on or before that year.

[KEmperor]

what

Apparently if you didn't celebrate your 24th birthday in Canada, they kicked you out of the club.

It's very exclusive.  Everyone wants in.  We can't just take any old riffraff off the street who thinks that their 24th birthday is too good for this country.

I wonder what happens to Canadian forces serving in Afganistan should they just happen to turn 24... hmmm...

This law has not been on the books since 1977.  It only applies to people who had the misfortune of being out of the country for their 24th birthday on or before that year.

Yeah, which is actually a serious problem for the thousands of seniors that are on pensions that have just found out they lost their citizenship(and hence their benefits).  At least according to the article.

[True Democrat]

Who the hell wrote this law?

[minionofmidas]

Did that apply to everybody or only to immigrants nationalized before they turned 24?

[MasterJedi]

And another reason Canada should be annexed, they're dumb!

[Gabu]

And another reason Canada should be annexed, they're dumb!

No, usually you annex a population because they have something you want.

[bullmoose88]

And another reason Canada should be annexed, they're dumb!

No, usually you annex a population because they have something you want.

Its a pretext for taking your Albertan oil.

[MasterJedi]

And another reason Canada should be annexed, they're dumb!

No, usually you annex a population because they have something you want.

Its a pretext for taking your Albertan oil.

The oils nice but we also need to Americanize them to make them normal North American people.

[Gabu]

And another reason Canada should be annexed, they're dumb!

No, usually you annex a population because they have something you want.

Its a pretext for taking your Albertan oil.

The oils nice but we also need to Americanize them to make them normal North American people.

Yeah, you need to get our crime rates up; they're way, way too low.

[KEmperor]

And another reason Canada should be annexed, they're dumb!

No, usually you annex a population because they have something you want.

We shall fornicate with your womenfolk.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

We have enough doofy white people as is. I suggest selling the dakotas, Idaho, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Kansas to Canada to reduce the doofy white quotiant of the vote by alot.

[True Democrat]

And another reason Canada should be annexed, they're dumb!

No, usually you annex a population because they have something you want.

We shall fornicate with your womenfolk.

Ewww. Canadians.

[KEmperor]

And another reason Canada should be annexed, they're dumb!

No, usually you annex a population because they have something you want.

We shall fornicate with your womenfolk.

Ewww. Canadians.

I didn't say we'd marry them or anything.

[John Dibble]

And another reason Canada should be annexed, they're dumb!

No, usually you annex a population because they have something you want.

Its a pretext for taking your Albertan oil.

The oils nice but we also need to Americanize them to make them normal North American people.

Yeah, you need to get our crime rates up; they're way, way too low.

Oh no - he only means we need to get you to realize that ketchup > mayo.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Really stupid law!  That needs to be eliminated--it's just dumb.

[Gabu]

Really stupid law!  That needs to be eliminated--it's just dumb.

As I've already noted, it hasn't been on the books since 1977.  The problem comes from the fact that it was on the books from 1947-1977 and technically applies to people who were out of the country for their 24th birthday during that time period.

[KEmperor]

Really stupid law!  That needs to be eliminated--it's just dumb.

As I've already noted, it hasn't been on the books since 1977.  The problem comes from the fact that it was on the books from 1947-1977 and technically applies to people who were out of the country for their 24th birthday during that time period.

It's like talking to a wall, huh?  It's not like I didn't include that exact fact in my post or anything.

[NewFederalist]

We have enough doofy white people as is. I suggest selling the dakotas, Idaho, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Kansas to Canada to reduce the doofy white quotiant of the vote by alot.

Are you suggesting they pay double for Kansas and Nebraska?

[Hatman 🍁]

And another reason Canada should be annexed, they're dumb!

No, usually you annex a population because they have something you want.

Its a pretext for taking your Albertan oil.

The oils nice but we also need to Americanize them to make them normal North American people.

Yeah, you need to get our crime rates up; they're way, way too low.

Oh no - he only means we need to get you to realize that ketchup > mayo.

Oh please, stop confusing Quebec customs with Canadian ones.

[John Dibble]

And another reason Canada should be annexed, they're dumb!

No, usually you annex a population because they have something you want.

Its a pretext for taking your Albertan oil.

The oils nice but we also need to Americanize them to make them normal North American people.

Yeah, you need to get our crime rates up; they're way, way too low.

Oh no - he only means we need to get you to realize that ketchup > mayo.

Oh please, stop confusing Quebec customs with Canadian ones.

If you really mean it then you should wipe Quebec off the map - Canada would be viewed more favorably by the world community if they did so.