Dual Canadians

From Yahoo:
"Canada eyes revoking citizenship of dual nationals tied to terror"

The Canadian government is eyeing legislation that would let it revoke the citizenship of dual nationals involved in acts of terrorism following news that a Canadian-Lebanese man participated in an attack that killed Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year. The Conservative government said on Tuesday that a Canadian dual national was one of three people who attacked a tourist bus in Bulgaria last summer, killing five Israelis. Canada is investigating a separate charge by Algeria that a Canadian coordinated last month's attack on a gas plant there. "Canadian citizenship is predicated on loyalty to this country, and I cannot think of a more obvious act of renouncing one's sense of loyalty than going and committing acts of terror," Immigration Minister Jason Kenney told reporters on Wednesday. Kenney said citizenship can now be revoked only if it was shown to have been gained fraudulently. Kenney endorsed a bill introduced by Conservative legislator Devinder Shory that would enable the citizenship of dual nationals to be revoked if they engage in war against Canada. He suggested expanding the bill to include acts of terrorism, even if they were not targeted at Canada. Kenney noted that some had questioned if Canada should continue to allow dual citizenship, following its large-scale evacuation of Canadian-Lebanese dual nationals from Lebanon in 2006.

But he said the government, and most Canadians, feel the idea of dual citizenship should stay. "The polls I've seen indicate pretty strong public support for it, which is interesting, because generally Canadians are really intolerant of those who would seek to abuse the country's generosity," Kenney said. "So this tells me they believe that the vast majority of dual citizens are bona fide and I agree.

             

^ I am a dual Canadian-American citizen and unlike the people in these terrorist cases I am considered a native Canadian and a native American and can never loose any of those citizenships or be deported from either of those countries. It is one thing to allow people who have another citizenship and then decide to naturalize as a Canadian to give up their other citizenship, but you can't for someone either born in Canada or born outside of Canada to a Canadian parent. This distinction needs to be made clear. ^

http://news.yahoo.com/canada-eyes-revoking-citizenship-dual-nationals-tied-terror-