“people who are born in Canada have a different citizenship status than those who immigrated here or came as refugees “

Actually, thatlittlewallflower , it’s even more twisted than that.

You don’t need to have been born and come from another country. You don’t need to be a first-generation immigrant. Or a refugee.

If your parents were immigrants and you are eligible for another citizenship - even if neither you or your family applied for you to get it, you are still targeted by Bill C-24.

I repeat, you can be BORN here, and Canada may be the ONLY country you’ve ever lived in, but if you’re ELIGIBLE for a second, third, fourth, etc. citizenship - you don’t need to actually have dual citizenship, only the eligibility for it - the Bill makes it so that your Canadian citizenship can be stripped away from you, and you could find yourself deported to another country for them to be forced to grant you citizenship status.

And they don’t need to involve the courts to do it.

They don’t need a judge to approve it.

The Bill gave that power to Immigration bureaucrats.

by this logic, myself, my mother and my sisters can be deported back to scotland because my granddad was scottish

wtf

Welcome to Harperland.

My partner is a permanent resident. Our two children were born here. They are both eligible for another citizenship. In theory, if they’re ever considered to be “traitors” to the country and/or government of Canada (the actual Bill doesn’t define what is “traitorous” enough, that’s for the people working at Citizenship and Immigration Canada to decide) there’s nothing stopping CIC officials from showing up at the door and deporting them to a country they’ve never been to, which they are only linked to due to the birth of one of their parents.

That Bill is bullshit, it was made by the Harper government so they could walk away from their obligations toward people like Omar Khadr, and to essentially terrorize even second-generation Canadians into compliance with those in power by hanging a “citizen-status” sword of Damocles over their heads for the remainder of their lives.

C-24 is bullshit.

All this this is correct and honestly it is ridiculous. 

I could literally be deported to Italy even though my ancestors on my mother’s side were here thousands of years before Europeans even set foot on this continent…. 

Fuck Stephen Harper and his cronies.

Just letting you all know that both the NDP & Liberals want to repeal (get rid of) this bill.

We have an election October 19th, 2015. Please vote.