Woman's Canadian citizenship revoked after 32 years amid federal 'error' | CBC News
Woman's Canadian citizenship revoked after 32 years amid federal 'error' | CBC News
The federal government has cancelled an Ajax, Ont., woman's Canadian citizenship over an error it said it made more than 30 years ago — forcing her to pay hundreds of dollars in a bid to get it back.
I don't agree with this. Clerical error or not, I don't care, she's Canadian. Give it back to her now.
Also, WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY WASTING TIME REVIEWING 30 YEAR OLD CITIZENSHIP APPLICATIONS?
Get your shit together Immigration Canada.
I think that picture tells you everything you need to know about why this decision was made.
An interesting contrast here. Air Canada is forced to honour an erroneous committment made by its service department. Government of Canada is not forced to honour a committment made by its service department.
I could understand it if the error was discovered and acted upon in a reasonable time, but over 30 years? That's just not acceptable.
[…] the department said in its letter that it has decided to cancel her citizenship because Townsend's mother didn't take her oath before Townsend was born.
What triggers are in place for the government to review ancestral citizenship history?
The article doesn't say, but I'd bet this woman applied for something (a passport? Government benefits?) that only citizens are eligible for, and that triggered a routine check, which then triggered a deeper check because she was born outside Canada, which led to the discovery that something was a bit odd. Your tax dollars at work.
Makes sense when you lay out the steps like that.
On today's episode of "beaurocratic horse-shit"...
Holy crap this is ridiculous. I feel terrible for her. As a child born only a couple of years after my own parents immigrated from Portugal to Canada, I can't imagine.
What complete bullshit. What if she renounced her previous citizenship? What's her status supposed to be then?
She may not have a previous citizenship, depending on how Jamaica determines citizenship, even if she didn't explicitly renounce it. That would leave her stateless, which is . . . not a good thing to be.
Geez Canada, that's a kind of dick move.