Alberta separatists claim independence means holding onto a Canadian passport. We asked legal experts (www.cbc.ca)

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Experts say an independent Albertan wouldn’t be entitled to Canadian citizenship

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[-] dermanus@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 days ago

Legally I don't know that we can revoke citizenship, but the separatists are really giving "have your cake and eat it too" vibes with this.

Like, do you want to leave or not? If Canada is so awful to you, why would you keep it?

It reminds me of a teenager threatening to move out because they have to clean their room.

[-] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Few think, about anything. It's mostly victims of a cohesive ragebaiting program. Russians successfully did it to the American right. Now both are doing it to the Canadian right.

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 6 points 2 days ago

Legally I don’t know that we can revoke citizenship

I don't think so - the only time citizenship can be revoked is if it was fraudulently acquired, as far as I know.

The article does a pretty good job of outlining the ways Canada could (and should, to be frank) make things difficult for a province that has declared independence, though.

[-] kahnclusions@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago

I don’t think so - the only time citizenship can be revoked is if it was fraudulently acquired, as far as I know.

We can revoke citizenship if parliament changes the Citizenship Act as part of a secession negotiation. The supreme court will put constitutional guardrails on it but it's absolutely possible.

The boring answer is that if a province is going to seceed, it will require a negotiated settlement between the said province and Canada, and such a settlement will absolutely contain agreements around what happens with the citizenships of that province's residents.