Senate motion aims to restore ‘due process’ to Liberal citizenship bill
Imagine a woman who fled an abusive husband with her small kids and came to Canada without disclosing her broken marriage.
Fast forward 30 years. An immigration officer in Ottawa found out the woman used to be married and decided to revoke her citizenship because she had misrepresented herself in her citizenship application.
That was the case described by Sen. Elaine McCoy in a Senate meeting recently. “That’s what’s been happening,” McCoy said.
“I started getting very interested in this whole case and asked to see a copy of a revocation letter. Well, the story gets worse. The revocation letter is signed, ‘Yours sincerely, D1816,” she told the meeting, referring to the unidentified adjudicator who decided the case.