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Earlier you wrote: > 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 C
by computator 10y ago
Earlier you wrote:
> 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 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.
- MichaelGG 10y agoUnless born to foreign government [government] workers.
- Symbiote 10y agoTo make this clearer: 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.
- takno 10y agoThe taxes thing was a pain when I worked in stores in Canada. You'd get about 10 customers a day presenting some kind of ID and claiming to be exempt from either gst or PST, and as a till monkey you'd have no knowledge or training in whether they were exempt or whether the IDs were legit. Add on people buying 6 cakes to avoid gst, and you might as well just press random tax buttons on the register
- FatalLogic 10y agoProbably that was the spirit of the law, but the letter of the law happens to cover the sons' situation. It's an unlikely edge case that the people who drafted the law could never have foreseen.