(SEE: live, throw, stones, people)
The federal election is two weeks away and the smell of desperation hangs in the air like a filthy shirt.
Andrew Scheer holds dual citizenship with both Canada and the United States:
Before one can say "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and declare that Scheer dodged the draft that was abolished in 1973, one has to wonder why this issue was raised in the first place.
I'm sure many people were not aware of Scheer's citizenship (or cared). As election tactics go, it doesn't have as much traction as the Liberals want. Many people have dual citizenship these days and the knee-jerk anti-Americanism used to define Canadian identity has waned for the moment in lieu of more pressing economic matters.
It's rather farcical given that Scheer, for all of his fault and failings, has never once declared that he admires China's dictatorship or called Canada a "post-national state". He certainly hasn't repealed a law that would have revoked citizenship of terrorists who returned to Canada.
Indeed, this factoid about Scheer wasn't even brought to light as a serious discussion on whether one who has dual citizenship can be the prime minister of Canada.
It's a ploy as transparent and sleazy as any other from a party that knows it can't win on its poor record and stands in the shadow of some rather (as of right now, rumoured) unsavory bits and associations.
Given that, Scheer's omission seems like nothing.
The federal election is two weeks away and the smell of desperation hangs in the air like a filthy shirt.
Andrew Scheer holds dual citizenship with both Canada and the United States:
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he never spoke publicly about being a dual Canadian-United States citizen because no one ever asked him.
Even when his colleagues were attacking politicians from other parties for their dual citizenships, he stayed silent.
The Globe and Mail first reported Thursday that the Tory leader’s father was born in the U.S. and therefore Scheer and his sisters received American citizenship as a result.
Scheer said he let his passport expire and met U.S. consular officials in August to begin the paperwork to renounce his American citizenship.
Before one can say "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and declare that Scheer dodged the draft that was abolished in 1973, one has to wonder why this issue was raised in the first place.
I'm sure many people were not aware of Scheer's citizenship (or cared). As election tactics go, it doesn't have as much traction as the Liberals want. Many people have dual citizenship these days and the knee-jerk anti-Americanism used to define Canadian identity has waned for the moment in lieu of more pressing economic matters.
It's rather farcical given that Scheer, for all of his fault and failings, has never once declared that he admires China's dictatorship or called Canada a "post-national state". He certainly hasn't repealed a law that would have revoked citizenship of terrorists who returned to Canada.
Indeed, this factoid about Scheer wasn't even brought to light as a serious discussion on whether one who has dual citizenship can be the prime minister of Canada.
It's a ploy as transparent and sleazy as any other from a party that knows it can't win on its poor record and stands in the shadow of some rather (as of right now, rumoured) unsavory bits and associations.
Given that, Scheer's omission seems like nothing.
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Elizabeth May was born in the US and move to Canada as a teenager. How many people are aware of that?
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