Madam Speaker,
for decades some Canadians have found themselves to be stateless due to a
number of convoluted immigration laws. Some have found themselves all
of a sudden losing their Canadian status and they do not know why.
In
2007, the UN listed Canada as one of the top offending countries for
making their own people stateless. In 2009, the Conservatives said they
were going to address this issue with Bill C-37. In fact, Jason Kenney
was the minister of immigration then. Sadly, Bill C-37 did not properly
address the lost Canadians issue. At the time, even Conservative
minister Diane Finley acknowledged that Bill C-37 would not fix all of
the cases of lost Canadians.
In fact, Jason Kenney created a brand new set of problems. For the purposes of this discussion, I will not get into the issues of how the Conservatives eliminated people's right to appeal when the government revoked their citizenship. I will simply focus on the issue of lost Canadians.
