Why does Canada automatically give citizenship to people born here'

Why indeed. I am 100% with the Conservatives on this issue. Enough with jumping the queue to get into our country. I am a supporter of legal immigration but this is NOT legal nor should it be.

Because we are idiots.

Seriously, the rules were written in a time when ocean crossing travel
was a real effort, not just hopping on a daily plane.

So just showing up and dropping a kid was unheard of.



It's the same as the rules were written about refugees,
and those rules have now been abused all over the place.

So, it needs to be canceled, but my guess is both parties are
now so desperate to court the immigrant vote, neither will do it,
because they see it as a vote loser.

And the open doors will continue.

Yup. The Liberals promised (among other things) a complete rewrite of the Criminal Code to eliminate the things the Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional. Still waiting on that, and they come up for re-election soon.

Add this law to that list needing a re-write.

Didn�t that happen almost a year ago?

http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl ... l/c51.html

Edit: I see it�s passed the House but still in Senate committee

Didn�t that happen almost a year ago?

http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl ... l/c51.html

So it is! Second reading in the Senate too.

https://www.parl.ca/LegisInfo/BillDetai ... Id=9002286

You'd think the media would cover that a little better.

What about temporary workers? I was one for six years here before I could get an employer to sponsor me.

Funny how just about everyone who lives in Canada understands that law is as ancient and antiquated as indentured servitude. Yet it's still a law. Meanwhile, we got buck a beer in Ontario, and you'll be able to buy pot and beer at the corner store. Priorities.

Didn�t that happen almost a year ago?

http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl ... l/c51.html

So it is! Second reading in the Senate too.

https://www.parl.ca/LegisInfo/BillDetai ... Id=9002286

You'd think the media would cover that a little better.
I just remembered the jokes about finally being able to practice witchcraft legally but yeah it�s been a while since it�s had coverage.

Didn�t that happen almost a year ago?

http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl ... l/c51.html

Edit: I see it�s passed the House but still in Senate committee

Unacceptable. All those kids pretending to be Harry Potter need the book thrown at them. SOFT ON CRIME!

EXPECTO PATRONUM {waves wand}

*stands up in the gallery of the House of Commons, waves wand* MAXIMUS EXCRETA! *sits down to laugh as everyone in the place shits themselves*

TO THE GALLOWS WITH YOU!

I don�t support so-called �automatic birthright� citizenship outright as a matter of principle.

Luckily �birth tourism� is a non-issue since it�s actually not that common. In 2016 , the last year data was available, there were barely 300 babies born in Canada to �non-Canadians�. And that number would include Americans, Aussies, and others in the country innocently and for other reasons. In fact I bet that�s most of them. It�s actually not that easy for a foreigner to just hop on a plane and have a baby in Canada for a number of reasons. And even if they did, citizenship isn�t actually automatic and neither the parents nor the baby have any right to stay in Canada after the birth. Only when that baby becomes an adult can they return to Canada and apply for citizenship. So the lack of near-term payoff is a major disincentive.

The �citizenship of convenience� issue we�ve heard about largely involves not �birth tourism� or �anchor babies� but globally mobile people who have legal status in more than one country - for example the alleged class of wealthy Chinese who mostly live abroad but have Canadian citizenship because they immigrated here for a period (as opposed to being born here). That�s a different concept altogether though.

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