Die australische Verfassung verbietet es australischen Staatsbürgern mit ausländischer Staatsangehörigkeit ausdrücklich, als Senatoren und Mitglieder des Repräsentantenhauses zu fungieren.
Allerdings verbietet Kanada derzeit kanadischen Staatsbürgern mit ausländischer Staatsangehörigkeit nicht, als Senatoren oder Parlamentsmitglieder zu fungieren, was dazu geführt hat, dass kanadische Parlamentsmitglieder mit ausländischer Staatsangehörigkeit anwesend sind.
Glauben Sie, dass Kanada dem Beispiel Australiens folgen und kanadischen Staatsbürgern mit ausländischer Staatsangehörigkeit die Tätigkeit als Parlamentsabgeordnete verbieten sollte?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dual-citizenship-mps-senators-parliament-australia-1.4439522
Should Canada enact legislation prohibiting citizens with foreign nationality from serving as Members of Parliament?
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Yes!! If you want to help govern Canada you should be all in without a backup plan. MP and MPP’s should also have to be Canadian for at least 20 years
I think the clause should be that you cannot hold citizenship with a country that has hostility towards Canada.
This goes without saying. We don’t need people in parliament with more interests’ at heart than just that of Canada.
Out of everything going on in Canada right now this is at the absolute bottom of my list of concerns.
That and home ownership
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This would likely be unconstitutional. This is what section 3 of the Charter states:
“**Every citizen of Canada has the right to vote in an election of members of the House of Commons or of a legislative assembly and to be qualified for membership therein**.”
Section 3 is also not subject to the notwithstanding clause so that is not an avenue here to get around this hurdle. The only options would be a constitutional amendment (almost impossible in Canada’s current political state) or making an argument that this would be a “reasonable limit” to Charter rights (which is possible but still unlikley to succeed in court since Canada has never had a prohibition on dual citizens in Parliament before).
One should read the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, specifically the article on democratic rights.
One should also be aware that the first Canadian citizen was Mackenzie King in 1947. It seems from 1867 onwards, through Confederation, two world wars, and the Depression, the members of Parliament were “all in” enough.
Unless someone can point to a systemic loyalty issue between oaths and foreign passports, I do not see this as an issue except maybe amongst xenophobes.
What problem is this supposed to solve, and why is it bigger in your mind than things like people not having doctors, or a disabled person trying to survive on 1K a month?
No, I don’t believe Canada should enact legislation prohibiting citizens with foreign nationality from serving as Members of Parliament. Canada should not follow Australia’s example and prohibit Canadian citizens with foreign nationality from serving as Members of Parliament.
YES a million times YES!
What MPs even have foreign nationality?
This sees like a pretty specific group. What have they done to need to be banned?
Yes
None of the countries you’re scared of allow multiple citizenship anyways, so those people would be Canadian only if they ran as MPs.
Also, this law makes no sense, solves no problems, takes some amount of resources to enforce and provides absolutely no benefit to anyone.
We’ve had a large number of MPs with dual citizenships and it’s never been a real problem.
Yes
Genuinely surprised this wasn’t a law already. Was It not a controversy with Andrew sheer back in 2019 ?
If the MP on question have a Canada first mindset, they wouldn’t have a problem forfiting their citizenship in the other country and only keeping their Canadian one.
If we had that law John Turner wouldn’t have become PM. Tom Mulcair never would have been leader of the opposition.
Then again that’d mean Andrew Scheer wouldn’t be in either.
Personally I’m against a law like this. It you are a citizen and you have a constituency who wants you – then that’s the way it should go.
A better and possibly more legally sound approach might be to require **disclosure of foreign citizenship**, subject to a substantial fine if not disclosed, of those who run as an MP.
A mandated disclosure approach could help fix a lot of things wrong with our parliamentarians regarding conflicts of interest, being part of an ownership/landlord class, and being subject to foreign influences.
The issues that could arise with foreign nationalities are basically are they foreign agents, or are they corrupt and on a foreign payroll, or is there some other conflict of interest. These are dealt with already by other laws and elections/the court of public opinion in general i think? Seems quite ridiculous to deny ourselves the benefit of someone voters can genuinely believe in and follow just because they are more than just Canadian.
I don’t see what this would do. Citizenship is just bureaucracy, it’s not ideology. Bureaucracy isn’t going to change an MP’s decision to corrupt themselves or not.
Yes.
Seems reasonable.
We should work to remove as many conflicts of interest as possible with our politicians.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Especially #MAGAndrew
I suppose the only possible and in any way reasonable approach to this would be to eliminate the holding of multiple citizenships in general. Want to be Canadian? Great. That’s all you get. Then you bypass the issue of MPs holding foreign citizenship entirely.
We should ban dual citizenship.