January 24, 2007

  • ARE YOU REALLY A CANADIAN???????? CANADA STRIPS UP TO 20,000 OF THIER CITIZENSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Its true check out Fox news web site, or just read what I cut and paste at the bottom of this post, cause it is the same article.

    You and or your parents might not canadian, that is if you were from Canada in the first place.

    So read the artical below and keep in mind I don't have time for a real post so this is all you get.

    BlackWolf

    FoxNews Link

    Report: Law Strips Thousands of Their Canadian Citizenship
    Wednesday, January 24, 2007

    Up to 20,000 Canadians may have unknowingly lost their citizenship by failing to celebrate their 24th birthdays in Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Wednesday.

    An obscure provision in that nation's Citizenship Act — on the books from 1947 to 1977 — automatically stripped citizenship from Canadians who celebrated their 24th birthday outside the country within those dates without signing the proper form, CBC News said.

    Now as Canadians rush to get passports to comply with regulations requiring them for entry into the United States, some are finding they are no longer Canadians in good standing.

    Septuagenarian Barbara Porteous discovered last year while applying for a passport that she had lost her citizenship, CBC News reported.

    Click here to read the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. story.

    "These documents confirm you were a Canadian citizen, but you ceased being a Canadian citizen on June 14, 1960, the day following your 24th birthday," a letter from Citizenship and Immigration read.

    "I cried for a couple of hours," Porteous told CBC News. "I mean, the hollowness you get inside when you find out that everything you live for is gone."

    Porteous is part of a group called the Lost Canadians, a group that may be as large as 20,000 — many of whom have no idea that they've lost their citizenship.

    The Canadian government has moved to fast track the reinstatement of citizenship for the Lost Canadians.

    "We're trying to right the wrongs of the past and do the reasonable thing, the right thing, for what are essentially Canadians in all but name," Citizenship and Immigration Minister Diane Finley told CBC News.

Comments (7)

  • did you know fox news is one of the worst ways to get actual news in the world? because the nedia - advertising - owns them so bad they'll distort anything or just won't print it becuase they don't want to disturb the people who pay them. yeah....it's true - we talked about it in class on monday.

    besides i haven't heard ANYTHING about this and i listen to the news every morning and it's something we'd definitely hear and talk about in my classes. yeah.....

    so anyway....i'm still canadian and this is ridiculous. it's actually a funny read.

    i hope i don't sound arrogant at all...i'm not trying to be.

  • u are SOOO funny. thanks for the history lesson...lol. and the long comments.....

  • So I got 5 bucks from Alan today. I'm still confused.

  • Wait, I hate you???? When did that happen? What are you talking about? Oh, and, is that your truck in the rather odd spot?

  • lol now that is funny   and I now can see what u r talking about    my bad

  • hahaha!!! unreal! i'm laughing so hard right now.

  • Dude... You never sent me flowers!!!! If you had, maybe things would be different between us... :o )hehehehe.

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