{"id":4759,"date":"2015-07-28T04:56:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T04:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariacampos.wpengine.com\/?post_type=en_post&p=4759"},"modified":"2017-02-12T20:52:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T20:52:57","slug":"reside-canada-after-becoming-citizen-bill-c-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariacampos.ca\/en\/2015\/07\/reside-canada-after-becoming-citizen-bill-c-24\/","title":{"rendered":"The intention to reside in Canada after becoming a Canadian citizen: Bill C-24"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the new changes to the Citizenship Act and Bill C-24, applicants have new concerns. People wonder what would happen if after becoming Canadian citizens they are offered a job overseas or if they decide to go back to their native lands for several years.<\/p>\n

The media has done a great job alarming the population and talking about the so-called \u201csecond-class Canadian citizen\u201d. The issue here would be to determine whether a \u201csecond-class Canadian citizen\u201d really exists and if so; what that actually means.<\/p>\n

Regularly, people tend to think that a naturalized Canadian is a de facto \u201csecond-class citizen\u201d, however, this is not necessarily true. Parliament intended to have Bill C-24 to be applied as a protective measure and it created a means to get rid of Canadian citizens (born in or naturalized) whose intentions are to harm our country. It is not true that minor offences will be used to revoke Canadian citizenship and as long as you (or your children) are not terrorists or are planning to commit crimes against humanity, you should be fine.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, assuming that a second-class exists, the fact that the Feds wish to remove someone from Canada does not mean it is really happening. The other jurisdiction would need to agree in receiving the national and principles of international law, extradition, human rights and so on, would be applicable. Therefore, I am sure the Canadian government is going to think more than twice prior to consider removing a national. Or do you think that most countries in the world will welcome back with open arms the nationals convicted in Canada of a very serious crime just because our government says so?<\/p>\n

I understand that when the Bill C-24 passed the first couple of readings back in 2014, activists and even the Canadian Bar Association advocated against the Bill. However, at that point, there was still some misconception of the final provisions of the Bill and no constitutional matters had been taken deeply into consideration or clarified by the Federal government. At that point, no one had certainty in regards to what the object of the Act and the intention of Parliament were going to be.<\/p>\n

Regarding the provision of the intention to reside in Canada, there is a lot of misinformation as well.<\/p>\n

Paragraph\u00a05(1)(c.1)<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0Citizenship Act<\/em>, as amended by the\u00a0Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act<\/em>\u00a0(SCCA), states that an applicant must intend<\/strong>, if granted citizenship,<\/p>\n