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Ilsanman
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Captain Corea
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| I'd be fine with that. Permanent residence is one thing, but actual citizenship should take some language requirement. |
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Kuros
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| Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:46 pm Post subject: Re: French or English necessary to become citizen |
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090320/national/tough_citizenship
Seriously, did it take them this long to figure it out? |
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Kenney later told reporters that immigration needs an overhaul and a key effort must be to ensure that immigrants and those who want to become new Canadians speak a competent level of French or English.
He said the requirement is already there but isn't being enforced strictly enough. |
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mises
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| Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I hope it is English for English Canada and French for French Canada. It would make no sense to give citizenship to some Algerian who lives in Edmonton because he speaks french. He might as well be speaking Klingon. |
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Kimbop
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mises
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| Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Kimbop wrote: |
| Jason Kenney would make an excellent PM. |
Ah, would he ever. He's my favorite pol. |
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