The Eight Most Common Ways Canadians Lost Citizenship
At the time the Lost Canadians were fighting for the return of their citizenship, I was a reporter at CBC News in Kelowna, BC. I also later became a member of CBC’s Investigative Unit, but before that happened I ran across the story of a Kelowna teacher who had been stripped of her citizenship, along […]
Department of External Affairs 1945: Canadians are Citizens
Take note in particular of # 2E:Referring to the upcoming introduction into Parliament of a new bill for Canadian citizenship, it talks about people who will be citizens once it has passed but then says “people who are now Canadian citizens under existing legislation will be recognized as Canadians under the (new) Bill.”http://dfait-aeci.canadiana.ca/view/ooe.b1603413E_010/1348?r=0&s=1This telegram is followed by […]
Canadian Citizenship in 1943: “Battle of Brains” Propaganda Booklet Clearly Says Soldiers were Canadians
The Battle of Brains was wartime propaganda printed in 1943 designed to encourage young Canadian men and women to sign up for the military. Interesting, when the government wants its young men and women to risk their lives, they are “citizens”, but once they actually give up their lives for their country, citizens they are NOT.“Every […]
Library and Archives Canada Says All War Dead Are Canadian Citizens
When hostilities broke out in September 1939, the Canadian government sought early on to centralize and manage the stream of propaganda messages that would bombard the Canadian public. Indeed, government officials consulted old First World War posters and other materials housed at the Public Archives to determine the best means of influencing public opinion and […]
Lost Canadians: Court documents where the government says that our war dead were never citizens
Attached are the court documents on the Jackie Scott case. Respondents Memorandum of Fact and Law T 418-12 T-418-12 Jackie Scott Application Record filed March 26, 2013 In the respondent’s section, sentences (20) and (24) spell it out clearly: 20) “Canadian citizenship is a product of statute and has no meaning apart from statute.” In […]