• favoredponcho@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    Well, at least your opinion doesn’t matter. The people that qualify don’t need your approval and are already citizens, they just need to get their document from the government.

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      2 hours ago

      No I think it’s stupid. People with no ties to Canada great great grandfather was Canadian and now they are. Out courts are fucking stupid and not just about this.

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        2 hours ago

        Could you highlight the section of the article where most Canadians don’t support the citizenship by descent law?

        In any case, in a democracy, the rule of law should apply. The majority can make the law as they have done, but it shouldn’t apply retroactively. Your Supreme Court has recognized this and your parliament when it made the new law.