Maryam Monsef Must Resign: Immigration, Canadian Institutions and Liberals Making the Rules Up as They Go Along

As the Liberals are so adamant and clear about reversing everything the previous Conservative government had done, firstly noted when Canadian-Jordanian citizen Zakaria Amara, convicted of being part of the Toronto 18 terror group, was the first Canadian to lose his passport under Bill C-24, the Liberals’ (out of spite?) worked to restore it. The always barely awake Immigration Minister John McCallum went so far as to say, “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian” (as reported by Matt Gurney of the National Post, February 28, 2016 “But reversing the law “because a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian” isn’t a reason. It’s a slogan. And not even a particularly original or even logically consistent one”) and acts of this significance, magnitude and spirit are no grounds for citizenship revocation (war criminals are and have been for years).  Nevertheless, the Liberals passed Bill C-6.

Thanks Minister McCallum.  If there was one politician I could choose that had only partisan thoughts in his brain with no real sense of his own thoughts, merely reading off a teleprompter 24 hours a day you would have my vote.  YET, the Liberals aggressively argued at that time, while generally uncontroversial and a long held belief by many governments, “that if one lies or commits fraud while seeking to obtain Canadian citizenship, that such citizenship cannot be said to have been properly obtained. Revoking it later, according to this logic, is simply removing something that never ought to have been obtained in the first place” – Matt Gurney.

Here we are with an elected MP Maryam Monsef that had false information on her claim to Canadian citizenship and shockingly THE RULES DO NOT APPLY!? How is Maryam Monsef allowed to stand as an MP and decrease the credibility of her party not to mention ripping off the voters of her constituency? Only the Liberals can get away with this (see what is happening on the tax front in Ontario).

As a review…the Conservative Government had passed Bill C-24 to “Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act - An Act to amend the Citizenship Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts”

From the parliament web site ( https://openparliament.ca/bills/41-2/C-24/ ), “This enactment amends the Citizenship Act to, among other things, update eligibility requirements for Canadian citizenship, strengthen security and fraud provisions and amend provisions governing the processing of applications and the review of decisions…”

Among some of the major points in improving and guarding this important institution (which the left leaning Canadian media at large missed):

“(a) clarifying the meaning of being resident in Canada;

(b) modifying the period during which a permanent resident must reside in Canada before they may apply for citizenship;

(c) expediting access to citizenship for persons who are serving in, or have served in, the Canadian Armed Forces;

(d) requiring that an applicant for citizenship demonstrate, in one of Canada’s official languages, knowledge of Canada and of the responsibilities and privileges of citizenship;

(e) specifying the age as of which an applicant for citizenship must demonstrate the knowledge referred to in paragraph (d) and must demonstrate an adequate knowledge of one of Canada’s official languages;

(f) requiring that an applicant meet any applicable requirement under the Income Tax Act to file a return of income;

(g) conferring citizenship on certain individuals and their descendants who may not have acquired citizenship under prior legislation;

(h) extending an exception to the first-generation limit to citizenship by descent to children born to or adopted abroad by parents who were themselves born to or adopted abroad by Crown servants”

Among some of the amendments that were passed under the Conservative government, (I have edited some of them for brevity), some of the main topics that received attention…

“…Amendments to the security and fraud provisions include

 (b) expanding the prohibition against granting citizenship to include persons who, while they were permanent residents, engaged in certain actions contrary to the national interest of Canada, and permanently barring those persons from acquiring citizenship;

 (d) expanding the prohibition against granting citizenship to include persons who, in the course of their application, misrepresent material facts and prohibiting new applications by those persons for a specified period;

 (k) authorizing regulations to be made respecting the disclosure of information….”

So Maryam Monsef, by this simple distinction your citizenship should be revoked and more importantly, resign your seat as MP. 

I can understand that any political party would garner votes from as many groups of voting citizens…and not yet citizens….or one day there will be more than 33 million citizens…but who are the Liberals really looking out for?  It also appears the very institution the Liberals are meddling with is the machine that will garner votes for them the next election (after blow out deficits, ad hoc carbon policies, the NEB as a kangaroo court rendering Canadian economic limbo and likely no clear decision on pipelines during Justin’s time). 

What institution is next where the Liberals will rule an ad hoc basis? Trouble at the henhouse…