Canadian Jihadists trouble me. A Canadian passport of
convenience is nothing new. In the run-up to the handover of Hong Kong to the
Peoples Republic citizens of that British colony flocked to our shores, got a
passport and went straight back with the world’s best insurance policy in their
brief case. The criteria that
brands Kadir and other jihadist as terrorists/enemies of the state could be applied to famous dissenters
like Dr. Norman Bethune. It is not
unimaginable that fifty years from now a Middle East solidly ruled by Islamists
is triumphant, Israel no longer exists and people like Kadri are viewed by
future Canadians with the same affection we have for Dr. Bethune and Che Guevara.
So the question is how much of the past do we destroy to
protect our future from the present? Does it make any sense pass new laws or
even change the constitution to prevent outliers from abusing Canada? I propose a citizenship retention act. Native born Canadian are going to have to
jump over a very high bar to be refused Citizenship. Behaving like Conrad Black comes to mind.
Even the antics of the Kadri clan would not warrant being made stateless. For
those granted citizenship the bar is much lower, and why not be proactive? Let’s
run the numbers and see how many paper citizens exist. If they fit the criteria
of scallywag they will have to go to an embassy, or maybe appear on a reality
tv show and demonstrate why they should continue to be privileged enough to
have their face on a Canadian passport.
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