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January 25, 2007
Bureaucrats Revoked Canadian Citizenship
Posted by Dave Blount at January 25, 2007 8:39 AM
A bizarre provision that was in Canada's Citizenship Act from 1947 to 1977 stripped Canadians of their citizenship if they celebrated their 24th birthday outside the country without filing the proper form. Now Canadians applying for passports to enter the USA are finding out for the first time that they are no longer citizens.
Barbara Porteous was applying for a passport when she discovered she had lost her citizenship the day after her 24th birthday in 1960.
Wept the piteous Porteous:
I cried for a couple of hours. I mean, the hollowness you get inside when you find out that everything you live for is gone.
Maybe she should try converting to Islam. Then she should have no trouble immigrating to her own country.
On a tip from Bill V.
