Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

[RangerRay]

Having seen the quality of a lot of born in Canada Canadians with generations of Canadian roots, it’s not a status I’m gonna put on a pedestal.

As one of those born in Canada Canadians with generations of Canadian roots, I agree!

 

[Halifax Tar]

As one of those born in Canada Canadians with generations of Canadian roots, I agree!

If you changed that to Angus Approved it would look like 3/4s of the dudes in this part of the country

 

[brihard]

Did your wife's parents come to Canada just to calve their daughter in order to secure a passport ?

No, as I mentioned she was already a toddler when they got here. I think they were just looking for a less shitty place to be Algerian than France where they were before. Give her (and later her Canadian-born brothers) a better future and all that.

Even the MacDonald Laurier institute’s most aggressive estimates in the link you provided are something on the order of 2500-3000 kids born to so-called ‘birth tourists’ per year. That’s a rounding error in immigration or birth statistics. As policy problems go that’s a very minor one.

Having a kid in Canada doesn’t mean you yourself get an immigration status you didn’t previously have. Citizenship attaches to the person born here, not the non-resident parent(s). Non-residents are not exempt from removal just because they’ve had a child here who is a citizen.

If someone is born in Canada, grows up in Canada, goes to school and eventually works in Canada, I don’t know what else to call them but “Canadian”.

 

[Halifax Tar]

No, as I mentioned she was already a toddler when they got here. I think they were just looking for a less shitty place to be Algerian than France where they were before. Give her (and later her Canadian-born brothers) a better future and all that.

Even the MacDonald Laurier institute’s most aggressive estimates in the link you provided are something on the order of 2500-3000 kids born to so-called ‘birth tourists’ per year. That’s a rounding error in immigration or birth statistics. As policy problems go that’s a very minor one.

Having a kid in Canada doesn’t mean you yourself get an immigration status you didn’t previously have. Citizenship attaches to the person born here, not the non-resident parent(s). Non-residents are not exempt from removal just because they’ve had a child here who is a citizen.

If someone is born in Canada, grows up in Canada, goes to school and eventually works in Canada, I don’t know what else to call them but “Canadian”.

We can dicker over the value of the stats but I will just write that off as our biases coming into collision, again.

Other than that I take no issue with your post. And you're correct. But thank you for the lesson anyways professor.

 

[brihard]

We can dicker over the value of the stats but I will just write that off as our biases coming into collision, again.

Other than that I take no issue with your post. And you're correct. But thank you for the lesson anyways professor.

You’re welcome. I’ll try to have grades up by the week before finals.

 

[Halifax Tar]

You’re welcome. I’ll try to have grades up by the week before finals.

I dropped your class don't stress.

 

[OldSolduer]

Just to stir the pot…My grandfathers immigrated from Scotland and England. They fought in WW1 with CANADA on their shoulder patch. Are they Canadian?

Yes. My grandfather was a Scots immigrant. He fought for Canada.

 

[FSTO]

I wonder if he told his wife she calfed his kids or if theres some other qualifier to referring to kids as livestock.

The proper spelling is “calved”.

 

[OldSolduer]

The proper spelling is “calved”.

And it was a term used extensively in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Especially amongst Sgts and WOs.

 

[lenaitch]

When my mom immigrated from Scotland in 1919 there was no such thing as Canadian citizenship - we were all British subject until 1947. She became a Canadian citizen by default in 1947, so I guess I'm legit.

My step-mom came over as a warbride and had to apply for her Canadian citizenship sometime in the 1970s.