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I do not believe so. Nor do I believe it would fix everything concerning the other topic on Lebanon. Divided loyalties are natural. I see this more as a commitment, a choice that must be made. The Lebanon situation brought out the fact that, when the going gets tough, hard decision will need...

Having any issue "strongly pursued" by DFAIT isn't the kind of "extraterritoriality" I would think Canada opposes. If you don't pursue a diplomatic objective, how would it be obtained? I do believe that it is an issue for any nation to have its citizens recognized as its citizens. After all, if...

It is what Canada must do as a sovereign nation. I believe in single citizenship, and I do not want to have Canadians who do not feel more Canadian than they do a foreign nationality - this is, I believe, the threshold that must be overcome. There are alternatives to dual-citizenship; I have...

The formal renunciation should be part of the Canadian Citizenship program. If the former nation still insists that it will not recognize Canadian Citizenship then this should be strongly pursued by the Foreign Affairs department. If Canada does not have the clout to have its own Citizenship...

Now, I don't want to specifically support this person's course of actions, but the Law (as approved/stamped by the Head of State, or their representative) allows for political discord. Having a political doubt about how the Head of State is determined is not being disloyal (how you express the...

He took the matter to the Grievance Board, and it was rejected, for the very real reason that the Queen of England (amongst other titles) is our Head of State. And that is where he should have stopped, change on this issue requires a change to the Head of State - which would require the public...

I assume you mean by having 1 citizenship? :)

Is the Constitution the problem? Does the law work in this area at all? - Okay, better than chaos I suppose. While the courts are able facilitate changes to the understanding of marriage, based on modern thoughts on Rights and Discrimination, the courts are somehow unable to alter treaties that...

The time being taken to become familiar would have to be compressed, but think of it in the historical context of Canadian units being sent from one sector of the Front to another. It shouldn't take months to understand the local layout; a relieving unit can acquire the information that was...

You'll have to check out the Africa Star (it had numerals - but not for counting tours/time). Afghanistan went from General to Specific many years ago. There is no point having the SWASM for some and the GCS for others. Bars on the SWASM can be used to indicate the different missions or even...

Full Canadian Citizenship, should require renouncing all other Citizenships (Full). This must also be shown in actions: Canadians must not vote in foreign elections and must not serve in foreign militaries or as members of foreign governments.

Admittedly I am unclear on why there is a need to do this, or have the 1 tour cap (not that every battalion will cycle through between now and 2009). Despite some protestations, I have never seen a lack of Infantry junior ranks willing to deploy. There did seem to be a problem at the NCO level...

Do you mean the Canadian General's who advised against deploying a force greater than 500+ personnel? If so, they didn't seem to have a problem with the dare part, mainly just the logistics of being in Afghanistan at all.

Yes. And if the need became real then the Canadian Government would use the usual "we'd like to help but we're just not capable", "don't have the means", "don't have the troops", and yet somehow that lack of capability is (was?) never addressed. Not that the USMC organization is the...

And again, the only real mention of the UN support for this mission was almost non-existent (a sound bite from a scrum with McCallum). All news organizations just skim over that part. Still... no one seems particularly upset that deploying less than 10% of the Army can be such a difficult task...

On the other side of this is that there will be those who have not been to Afghanistan because of the courses or taskings they were assigned. Wouldn't sending these people over on the next available tour be a priority? Sending the same people over again and again in order to have experienced...

I agree that there are many people who travel and work in many countries; having multiple citizenships helps them do business. But some form of Honourary Citizenship (or whatever it would be called) would solve that problem and stick to the logical principle of 1 person 1 citizenship (Full)...

I wouldn't want Teddy Ruxpin to pass a fault :) . It's a do-over.

Regional Development isn't the new profanity. The problem for the CF and Regional Development is that the CF has such a large capability deficiency. For a military that has been focused almost completely on expeditionary deployment since the end of the Second World War, the CF somehow ends up...

A smiley was not required, my post was minimally sarcastic and encompassed myself as a contributor to the topic. Some solutions that seem ideal are not implemented for solid practical reasons (or even pragmatic political ones); I am inquiring if anyone is aware of any (or willing to guess).