Canadian Apathy 3: Canadian Citizenship

"Voluntary" and "Mandatory" duties of citizenship?

Now even less about the war of 1812? Should not every Canadian citizen - home grown or not - know how the borders came to be? This also dovetails into Monarchy, Commonweatlth and the Queen we have now.

Our borders did not exist since the beginning of time - thousands of families had their houses burned down in barabaric raids over ties to England versus independence.  Not to mention how Hudson's Bay Co. obtained the lands in the name of trade.

Instead of the test becoming easier and shorter, the volume of material should increased as so many basic things about Canada are not known at large by its citizens, metaphorically it makes us look like the class dunce at the meeting tables and with travelling buddies on our post-university travels.


http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/taxes-census-treaties-described-as-obligations-of-citizenship-in-new-guide/wcm/016bf5ad-58df-4924-82b4-78ea5168e768

"By the sound of it, the new text will read like Quotations from Justin Trudeau:"

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/c-p-champion-new-citizenship-guide-shows-liberals-are-the-copy-cats/wcm/5653a9c6-b260-4a4e-b311-c37edb0f622e

Canadian Apathy 1: Even After Voluntarily Providing $10M to Khadr, Liberals Likely to Face 2019 Re-Election

As shocking as it sounds, even after protecting citizenship for known and convicted terrorists and doling out $10M to the Canadian-born Omar Khadr, even on the 4th of July and payment unnecessarily accelerated while Parliament was not even sitting (that is, no chance of debate), this band of self-righteous do-gooders (all "for the middle class", of course), are likely facing another victory in 2019.  If this is happening now in year two of the Liberals' term, what will Canada look like after 2019? God help us....

http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/emerging-polling-trend-suggests-khadr-settlement-may-not-have-hurt-liberals-after-all/wcm/387208e0-45ed-4290-9a7a-922ab463c516