While working in China in 2008, Chandler fell in love with a Chinese woman named Fiona. The pair got married and had two kids. Then, in 2017, Chandler landed a job in British Columbia. The young family planned to move to Canada together, until they learned their children didn’t qualify for Canadian citizenship.
The intent of the 2009 law was to prevent citizenship from being continually passed down in families with no legitimate connection to Canada. For Chandler, who grew up, studied, and works full-time in Canada, the law makes him feel like a second-class Canadian. “The law is discriminatory,” said Sujit Choudhry, a Toronto-based constitutional lawyer representing the families in the Charter challenge.
Solution is to tax Canadians on their world wide income. This way no matter where you live you still have ties and contribute to Canadian society through taxation. The same taxation rate should be applied to a Canadian living abroad as a Canadian living at home.
Smells a little (a lot) racist in here.
Thats two generations born outside the country in a row. Too fuckin bad. You want to be a citizen here so bad but can't be bothered to actually live here and contribute? Ingrates.
This law was passed because the Lebanese people living in Montreal has Canadian citizenship and were collecting welfare from the government and living in Lebanon and having businesses in Lebanon
They are not abusing the system. The issue was, the system was being abused and this is why it was put in place.
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