For many Canadians the most troubling change is the non revoking of Canadian citizenship even if the individual is convicted of terrorism.
The interests of terrorists have been prioritized over the well-being of Canadians, all in the name of political correctness and multiculturalism at any cost.
In 2015, the jihadist who masterminded the plot to “bomb Parliament and several buildings in the heart of downtown Toronto” became “the first Canadian in history to have citizenship revoked under Bill C-24, a controversial Conservative measure passed last spring,” but now bill C-6 “would automatically reinstate citizenship for dual nationals such as Zakaria Amara.”
The Bill now goes to the House of Commons for further examination, and MP’s can accept, reject or modify it.
“Senate passes bill that removes the right to revoke citizenship from terrorists”, by Doris Strub Epstein, CIJ News, May 6, 2017:
The Senate passed Bill C-6 on Wednesday (May 3, 2017) after debating for almost a year on changes affecting citizenship, children’s rights and language requirements.
Bill C-6 which proposes changes to the Citizenship Act, removes the right to revoke citizenship from dual nationals who are convicted terrorists; ends the obligation for new citizens 14 -18 and 55 -65 to know either English or French; reduces the number of days someone must spend in Canada before they are eligible for citizenship; minors can apply for citizenship independent of their parents.
For many Canadians the most troubling change is the non revoking of Canadian citizenship even if the individual is convicted of terrorism. If passed in the House of Commons, it would automatically reinstate citizenship for dual nationals such as Zakaria Amara, a member of the Toronto 18 who intended to bomb downtown Toronto. Under the Conservatives’ Bill C-24, he had his citizenship revoked last fall. Responding to criticism from the Conservatives about Bill C-6, Prime Minister Trudeau and cabinet ministers repeated “a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian”.
Conservative Senator David Lang (represents the Yukon) is Chair of the National Security and Defence committee in the Senate. He is fiercely opposed to the changes and believes it ” weakens Canadian citizenship on several fronts.”
But he is most concerned that “If an individual is convicted for terrorism, they will be able to keep their Canadian passport and all the benefits that go with it. It is ironic that the government supports the view that if you lied to get into Canada, you can lose your citizenship, but if you are a dual national Canadian who is convicted for a serious terrorism offence, you cannot have our citizenship revoked.”
According to Senator Lang, terrorism is a real threat to our country. Of the 218 terrorist suspects under investigation by CSIS today, roughly 60 are either dual nationals or permanent residents.
Approximately 180 people with a connection to Canada are engaged in terrorist activity abroad and an additional 60 have returned and are freely walking the streets. He claims 86 percent of Canadians support revocation of citizenship for terrorism.
The former Conservative government’s citizenship legislation revoked citizenship from dual Canadian citizens convicted of terrorism, treason or espionage.
The Senate vote to pass Bill C-6 was supported by 45 senators, 20 against, with no one abstaining.
The Bill now goes to the House of Commons for further examination, and MP’s can accept, reject or modify it….
kessler says
I would love to hear one sensible argument justifying the protection of citizenship for convicted terrorists. Just one…does it exist?
Wakup says
Well I would say once you are a citizen you should be treated the same as any other citizen that isn’t the point to me. If a citizen commits treason they should be executed simple as that, why did we stop executing traitors.
The situation at the moment is we are imprisoning more and more people, who show no remorse and are not reformable, they need to be offed ASAP preferably by female exectioners. Under the American constitution the execution should not be cruel, so OK simply execute them with nitrogen gas, Google anoxia totally humane. The point and nobody gets this is they need to be gone.
simpleton1 says
In many fairy stories, the bad person if not killed was banished, exiled; which equals deportation, plus stripped of citizen’s rights.
Execution, has been shut down, which is sort of along the path of not being able to revoke citizenship.
Perhaps that leaves the only one choice, take no prisoners.
Already there is conflict in this, as some advise to shoot for the legs, use pepper spray, use tasers, and of course all police are totally threatened with legalize follow up and inquiries.
We do not want police needlessly shooting citizens, but it is the media trials, good in part, but it turns into witch hunts.
These days the judges would interpret that, to mean that the prisoners are to be pardoned, or some other form or reason to being traded to freedom? As we often see with low or no bail, weak parole concepts.
Jeanette says
I seriously doubt that the Canadians are going to execute their senators.
They might want to be more careful of who they vote for, though – as should we.
David says
A sensible argument from the government?
Logic and sensibility does not exist in the government vocabulary.
Jeanette says
Or, western governments have no problem with Muslims killing westerners.
Except for themselves and their friends and family, of course.
They apparently aren’t clever enough to realize that after the ALLAHgators have eaten all of the regular people, they will eat those government officials, too, despite the fact that they so generously handed their country and its people to the ALLAHgators.
SherLee says
Duh! you think?? would seem the sensible thing to do…it’s almost laughable to have even considered not revoking if it was such a horrible brutal issue….
SherLee says
**meant if it was not such a horrible brutal issue…
Monty says
“For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.” The Bible, about 2,000 years ago. Most of the world lives in lies and deception. The West has forsaken God and His ways and rejects what used to be considered morality. I am beginning to see why Islam has cast such a spell on the Western world in particular. It makes no sense at all to embrace Islam, yet leaders are falling over themselves to turn the world into a Muslim caliphate. The occasional “voice in the wilderness” is ridiculed and threatened. People like Robert Spencer, Pam Geller, “Sheik Yermarmi” and others who oppose Islam are attacked while Muslims can say and do what they please with little consequence. Why? Because the world rejects the truth and so lies prevail.
Mickey says
Thank you Monty. That was very well articulated. It is beyond the normal mind to comprehend the mentality of these liberals and the “spell” these heathens and animals of the Islamic belief have over them. God has to be angry. America has turned its face away from God over the past 30 years. It is sad and something is going to blow.
Carolyne says
Perhaps something is “Going to blow,” but if so, can’t your God prevent it? If He is a loving God, as Christians claim, why would he be so vindictive. It is all a superstition.
Marg says
Carolyne, It’s not God being vindictive. He has given men free will and the present world condition is the result of that free will choosing to put God out of everything…political, corporate and individual. The world without God and his principles and values is what we are experiencing now, that is complete chaos.
Messianic Fuzz says
God is not the one to blame here. If you think He should stop the evil of others, then in all fairness He should stop you and me every time we are about to sin. You wanna be a meat-puppet? I’m glad I serve the Risen Jesus who is full of grace and lets me learn from my many blunders. You should give Him an opportunity to prove Himself true to you.
le mouron rouge says
Amen Monty!
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”
– Isaiah 5:20 (ESV)
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
– Albert Einstein
Carolyne says
Albert Einstein’s quote makes as much sense as the biblical quote. It perhaps should be included in the bible?
Wise things can be said by human beings, as was done when the bible was written. Some were wise, some not so much. Some were misogynistic and downright cruel., Does one pick the wise ones and reject the cruel? Why should any of it be cruel? Why should any of it be believed?
Jeanette says
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” – Isaiah 5:20 (ESV)
And if that doesn’t sound like the Muslims …
Bill says
A citizen has rights. That is the virtue of citizenship, which is why citizenship should be granted carefully whenever a choice is involved. A criminal citizen in the United States does not lose his or her citizenship for committing a crime, but they do forfeit rights associated with citizenship if convicted. They can be punished though as a citizen. So if a Canadian citizen commits an act of treason or a crime against others, then punish that citizen to the full extent of the law applicable to citizens.Why revoke citizenship?
What is bothering me is that the Democrat Judiciary is shredding our Constitution, writing their own laws as unelected dictators and creating a global right to US citizenship.
In Canada, the danger is that Islamic citizens are being granted special rights and privileges not available to all citizens and they are not being punished for their crimes. People criticizing their actions and motivations, however, are subject now to criminal liability and I expect that they will be punished more than any Islamic terrorist in Canada will ever be punished.
le mouron rouge says
Bill,
Per Findlaw.com
“Although rare, it is possible for a naturalized U.S. citizen to have his or her citizenship stripped through a process called “denaturalization.” Former citizens who are denaturalized are subject to removal (deportation) from the United States. Natural-born U.S. citizens may not have their citizenship revoked against their will, but may choose to renounce their citizenship on their own.”
http://immigration.findlaw.com/citizenship/can-your-u-s-citizenship-be-revoked-.html
and
https://www.us-immigration.com/blog/can-us-citizenship-be-revoked
Allowing someone to become a U.S. Citizen is a privilege not a right.
Carolyne says
And only those who were born elsewhere can be deported, regardless of whether or not they hold US citizenship.
John A. Marre says
Non-Muslim citizens will be stripped of their citizenship if they complain, or say the word “muzzy.”
Isabella says
I can guarantee you that less than 10 % of Canadians are aware of this. I am flabbergasted that a country has spent energy on keeping individuals who have proven that they hate random Canadians. After all, terrorists for most of them kill people they do not know. Totally incomprehensible. Non-sense, non-sense!
US infidel says
Maybe its time to take the law in your own hands. Form up vigilante groups and go after the crud after you take thsm out lau them facedown to the west and stuff tbsier underwear in their mouths . Put ork product’s on tbem and bet their bullshit will stop.
Frank Verderber says
When you read things like this, the jaw drops. “How,” one says, “can anyone be that stupid?”
The answer is, the Canadian government is not stupid, in the sense that they don’t understand the results of their action, but have determined intellectually to do this for reasons far exceeding political pointlessness. The issue is religious, or better said, spiritual.
Far from the imagination of the average religious person or pseudo-religious individual – who may have some affinity toward Biblical things – or a common Buddhist or Hindu who wants to favor some blessing from their perception of divine reality – the Globalist do what they do as an anti-religious activity. Most who are humanists, are out to prove that God doesn’t exist, so they will do exactly the opposite of what Biblical restraints warn.
However, there are those within the confines of the hierarchy of Global government who believe the dimensional entity they have been communing with, is the real god of the universe. He is the Prince of the Power of the Air – and this is what promotes Climate demagoguery rather than earth related clean up and care. You see, the entity that is running the show has his last principality in the air. Additionally, this is why from time to time we read about or actually see real time demonstrations of occult activity in the strangest places, such as at the British opening and closing ceremonies for the Olympics, or during the dedication celebration for the new tunnel in Switzerland.
If you look carefully at the bling some these world leaders wear, you will notice many forms of occult jewelry; from shaman amulets – to Wiccan wheels – to Taoist Ninja decorum. Read me well, the occult is in, and very fashionable. That does not bode well for Christian and Jews or even moralists, many of whom are Buddhist.
Canada, though it has many Christian organizations, does not have the freedom that Americans have concerning governance. Short of outright rebellion, the Canadians religious are in for a real persecution.
I think rational Americans should encourage the Christians and Jews of Canada to move here, and send all of our jihad mentalities and occult predators to Canada – then build a wall between us and Canada, to keep the dissolute out of our God fearing country.
le mouron rouge says
Amen Frank!
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
– Ephesians 6:12
“Still, high IQ and common sense don’t always go together. As George Orwell noted, “some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
– Author Unknown
Irene Brekelmans says
Citizens have a right to be protected.against Muslim Jihadfighters who murder, and revoke their citizenship and passport.Citizenship and a passport we were always very careful with, because if you lost it……
But nowadays, it does not seem important any more. I am a normal citizen, have 1 passport and no more passports. How come that the criminals and foreign people have 2 passports or more? If something happens they can flee anywhere, we can’t.
To Canada and Trudeau I have one thing to say: Bonne chance, et merci beaucoup pour ‘VOTRE SUPPORT”
Lynne says
If one can lose their citizenship if they lied to get into the country, why wasn’t Maryam Monseff’s mother’s not revoked.
Stan Lee says
It’s sad for Canadians, but this is what they get for electing a snowflake like Trudeau. He will ruin Canada for a long time to come. So sad for Canadians who must shoulder the burden of super-leftist socialism.
It’s as though Canada has become part of the E.U., and that is not good for Canada.
Anne Smith says
Not just Trudeau – who voted all these stupid people into power? Canadians have only themselves to blame – at present. In a few years there will be enough Muslims to have their own politicians and run the country.
In UK the Muslim block vote is corrupting elections and the Government does nothing about it. It was left to four brave private citizens to bring a court case against the evil Luhfur Rahman who perverted the whole system in Tower Hamlets and was running his own fiefdom.
It will soon be like that in every country where they have invaded.
Mark A says
Thanks for reporting this. I have’t seen anything about this in our Canadian MSM.
Ethel Red says
On June the 3rd a Million Canadian March is happening in Ottawa. The event starts with speeches on Parliament Hill, Kevin J Johnston is one of the speakers (Freedom Report. Com) and a Pig roast at an undisclosed location right now. It continues the next day as well. I have never been to one but I am as we have to let this Trudeau see with his own eyes how pissed off the unwashed majority of us Canadians are. Event starts at 11 A.M. I have never been as pissed off at any P.M, like Little Potato Trudeau. I hope the people of Canada can respond and get that fool Trudeau gone.
Regan says
Cultural jihad, insidious and parasitic, is putrefying Canada from within. I suspect the dirty hands of demonic globalists are pulling the strings on this as much as muzzies, who are too inbred and retarded with Mosaic Down’s Syndrome from their incestuous culture of raping female family members to orchestrate this independently.
Dave de la Rond says
How can Trudeau justify this insanity. This is more proof that 95% of Muslims living here n Canada voted for this imbecile
Matthieu Baudin says
“… Bill C-6 which proposes changes to the Citizenship Act, removes the right to revoke citizenship from dual nationals who are convicted terrorists; ends the obligation for new citizens 14 -18 and 55 -65 to know either English or French; reduces the number of days someone must spend in Canada before they are eligible for citizenship; minors can apply for citizenship independent of their parents…”
A total capitulation in the face of terror. The Canadian People have been sold out.
Politicianphobia says
SPEECHLESS
le mouron rouge says
RCH,
Ditto for the U.S.A.
“To argue with a person who has denounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
– Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Lioness says
In July 2015, while campaigning, Trudeau said “terrorists should get to keep their Canadian citizenship” (exact quote). But no problem, a few months later he was elected PM. So obviously those who voted for him agree with this statement whole heartedly. There is no shortage of traitors and morons in Canada.