Each year on Canada Day I watched celebrations and swearing in ceremonies of new citizens, feeling deep down inside something wasn't fair. After squabbling with CIC for years, in 2000 I was told literally to "FORGET FOREVER" about Canadian citizenship! I always asked myself why in God's name is Canada doing this? They should be embracing it's lost canadian children. There are plenty of people south of the border with canadian roots that would love to come home. Sadly, the reason is it was all about GREED. CIC wasn't going to make any money on Lost Canadian Children, it was to easy, they wanted to appear as though they were caring about diversification and multiculturalism, they could make millions of dollars finding poor refugees or millionaires who were willing to pay upfront as new citizens, then use that money for their own agendas. Many average folks and business people were suckered into the CIC plan while lost canadian children were being refused. No other criminal charges have been filed that I know of except for the three MP's who also are victims of the CIC wrongdoing. It's time they scuttled the old plan, just hope something better, really means something better, not just repairing the queen's roof. Why don't they do what I said back in the eighties, bring all the families from the states who's families first settled onto canadian soil, raised their families, cleared the forests and tilled the land while worshipping God on their own terms and making it what it is today. Canadian would love to welcome their american cousins, although many will argue otherwise, but who's ancestors were fleeing from the English and the overbearing romanized church, yet we're stuck still not thinking like a soverign country. There is nothing wrong with a country taking in good people from around the world, but my God, you don't forsake your own!When this story surfaced and I posted it in 2010, Islanders had always wondered why I had all that problem having to be recognized a Canadian, well in 2010 the truth finally surfaced, you see, for years Citizenship and Immigration was promoting to the provinces the idea that individuals could derive wealth from foreign immigrants without consequences, easily seen as the clear indication for the PNP Scandal on PEI!
For years the CIC PNP Nomination Program effectively kept Lost Canadian Children from becoming citizens, we were at the bottom of the CIC barrel while immigrants and refugees were being fast-tracked, albeit money and selfish greed mostly by Canadians! For the soul of Canada, FOREIGN INFLUENCE should be investigated until integrity is returned to citizenship issues, start by banning brokers, back rooms and hidden agendas! UPDATE!Immigration Minister Chris Alexander reveals contradictions in citizenship law...Jenny Uechi Posted: Feb 20th, 2014 "Contradiction in Citizenship Law" Another hot topic was the end of the immigrant investor program, which offered visas to people with a net worth of at least $1.6 million who were willing to lend $800,000 to the Canadian government for investment across Canada for a term of five years. The change, which would leave 45,000 Chinese millionaires in limbo, was proposed in the new 2014 budget. The decision has angered some in the Chinese Canadian business community, with some people speaking out at a press conference in Chinatown.
Asked by a reporter for comment about angry Chinese investors condemning the cancellation, Alexander responded:
"The majority of people who have made their views known to us from the Chinese community and elsewhere have said 'Bravo, thank you for ending a program that was not meeting its objectives."
When another reporter pressed him on whether the program was losing Canada money, he shook his head and said 'no.'
"Has Canada lost money in this deal? No, I don't think so. In general, I think it yielded some results, but it wasn't as advantageous or as positive as some of our other economic programs, so that's why we're ending this program and replacing it with something better."
Allow me to tell you my story, my name is Robert Finbar Brown, everyone downhome called me Bobby. I was born at North Lake, Prince Edward Island in 1944, three years before Canada had a Citizenship Act!With strong SCOTTISH PRESBYTERIAN roots, my ggg-grandfather Duncan MacLaren journeyed to P.E.I. from Scotland onboard the "FALMOUTH" in 1770 as an indentured servant. The picture with my brother Ross, was taken the day I was brought to the States. Although only six, I remember as if it were yesterday, seeing the old bus coming over from the point throwing billows of red dust high in the air and rushing to say good bye to everyone, Ross, my aunts and uncles, my cats and horse Flicka, and my best buddy Rover, not knowing I'd never see him again. My memories of those days were of happy times filled with kindness, respect, and love. There were good neighbors and good family, my values were shaped in those few years, never ever to be forgotten!
I remember fondly the old farm and helping my uncles pick potatoes, the beach at North Lake, walks to Fraser's store for penny candy, being a little little kid and being scared to deathe by bagpipers marching up Queen St, later playing around the old train station in Charlottetown with my cousins down on Water St. I'll always remember the unforgettable sounds of an era gone by, the old train turntable, the iceman, the ragman, smell of penny candy at the old 5 and 10, fish and chips, girlie shows at Old Home Week, and best of all rock and roll teen dances at Rollaway. I was here the day I turned sixteen, drove straight to East Point just to dig around in the old home's cellar! Each year I returned, eventually trying to start a small business but was unbelievably turned down for citizenship. We honeymooned on the Island and planned to raise our family here, hoping all the time government would simply change it's mind.
Relatives, MP's, Senators and House of Commons Members, even strangers, could never understand why I wasn't a Canadian citizen, even more so a dual citizen! I was a mere child, not having attained the age of majority to renounce or acquire a country's citizenship, nor given due process or choice of allegiance as accorded by the Canadian Citizenship Act! The 1977 Citizenship Act came along in an attempt to correct the law by making it impossible to loose nationality and citizenship. However, it was a failure and only continued to be unjustifiably unfair to those of us who lost it automatically prior to 1977 who had to still deal with the inequities, injustices and consequences of archaic laws.
"Parliament had to pass a bill that would REDRESS the years of unfairness and heartaches for all children born in Canada who lost Nationality and Citizenship, unjustifiably and automatically. It should be made right, once and for all, anything but "Automatic Resumption" for Lost Canadian Children and their Descendants would only continue to divide and torment those families for years to come!"
I was made a naturalized U.S. citizen on January 26, 1955 as a child ten years of age when I was told to raise my hand and pledge an OATH to be a citizen of the United States! That innocent act as a minor, could not change my BIRTHRIGHT, my heritage or feeling in my heart that Canada was my true home, the States only my temporary home. Early trips to the States weren't easy; my mother sought work as a domestic; we moved from one job to another, one room at a time, many nights we went to bed hungry. One employer, refusing to have worker's children in their home, meant my being placed in a Massachusetts foster home, where I remember long rows of beds and cruel treatment dealt to the children for merely crying.
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