They were born in Canada so they should be citizens independently of their parents.
> Everyone who is born in Canada is eligible for Canadian citizenship, with one exception: those who are born to employees of foreign governments.
Had the same thing with my kids. Born to me (Canadian). So instant citizenship. But to travel I've got to get their Canadian passports, which requires other docs, including the passport from their other country of citizenship. I asked if I already had that other passport, could she apply for a visa? Nope, she's a Canadian citizen, even if there is no documentation other than a birth certificate with a (naturally born) Canadian parent on it. They had quite a look of enjoyment as they explained I'd have to do double the work for zero benefit.
Or have about those Canadians who work legitimately for foreign embassies? Canada clearly has those [1]. I assume their kids don't have their citizenship retracted.
My guess that this is meant as some sort of punitive action against the parents, but it seems wrong to punish the children. Even assuming the kids knew, as the article pointed out, what's a 16-year old who finds out his parents are foreign spies supposed to do? Call the FBI? I can see children in a totalitarian country reacting that way out of fear or an excess of patriotism, but have we really reached that point here in the West?
> it was discovered that they had never been Canadian citizens in the first place. Their parents lied to them and told them that they were Canadians
You misunderstood a key fact from the article: They were born in Canada.
"You are probably a Canadian citizen if you were born in Canada", according to:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizenship/rules/index.asp
where "probably" means there are very obscure exceptions that only a bureaucrat can dream up.
This means diplomats, ambassadors, and other staff working in embassies etc. They get immunity from Canada's laws, and usually taxes, but in return get no benefits from being there. They aren't considered residents of Canada.
Unless you're claiming 7 billion people in the world were born in Canada, the most distinguishing fact about these two is obviously not that their parents pretended to be Canadian.
Not at all. I'm claiming that 7 billion people are not Canadian citizens due to the circumstances of their birth.
Then, as I said, the most distinguishing fact about these two is obviously not that their parents pretended to be Canadian.
There really is no point in arguing this since you believe the circumstances of someone born in Canada, raised to some extent in Canada, and having an affinity with Canada are analogous to someone who doesn't even know Canada exists, like a large proportion of that 7 billion you talk about.
BTW, did you edit your other post? Not that it changes anything, but I don't remember it saying "victims of not being born Canadian citizens" when I replied.
To be legit, that's at least two separate people coincidentally downvoting the same day old posts at the same time, on a Page 5 submission.