[LINK] "Why terrorist should keep his Canadian citizenship"

[rfmcdonald]

I agree wholeheartedly with Thomas Walkom's Toronto Star column about the profound flaws with the idea that denationalizing people for crimes could ever be OK.

“A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian,” an impassioned Trudeau said during Monday’s televised leaders’ debate.

“You devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this place and in this country when you break down and make it conditional for anybody.”

Mulcair chose to say nothing on citizenship in the debate. But on Sunday he made much the same point, accusing Prime Minister Stephen Harper of playing a dangerous game.

“He’s dividing Canadians one against the other,” said the NDP chief, “creating two different categories of citizenship.”

Indeed, that is one of the problems of the new law. Those who possess only Canadian citizenship have an ironclad guarantee that they cannot be sent into exile.