Experts say an independent Albertan wouldn’t be entitled to Canadian citizenship

  • kahnclusions@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    I don’t think so - the only time citizenship can be revoked is if it was fraudulently acquired, as far as I know.

    We can revoke citizenship if parliament changes the Citizenship Act as part of a secession negotiation. The supreme court will put constitutional guardrails on it but it’s absolutely possible.

    The boring answer is that if a province is going to seceed, it will require a negotiated settlement between the said province and Canada, and such a settlement will absolutely contain agreements around what happens with the citizenships of that province’s residents.