I think denying citizenship to someone for the ‘crime’ of criticizing a war of conquest is not what was intended with this law. I think there should be, and will be very surprised if there is not, an exception made in this case.
Yeah, I suspect this one will get an exception quickly, given the press. But it’ll set an interesting precedent if applied to the Israel-Hamas situation.
And there it is – indications of reversal: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/canada-citizenship-russian-blogger-ukraine-war
that article is super confusing. the first paragraph reads:
Canada has reversed course after initially blocking a Russian anti-war activist from receiving citizenship because she had run afoul of Moscow’s harsh laws criminalizing dissent over the invasion of Ukraine.
which makes it sound like they allowed her to be a citizen, but the rest of the article is about how it didn’t let her.
I think it’s been quietly editted or the wrong link was posted. Here’s a brand new article from CBC. It seems to be break news.
thank you, at least that clears things up.
