They like the residency requirement. They also like the measures that you proposed initially, which have been taken up in this bill. There are those we want to honour and historical injustice we want to correct by awarding citizenship to lost Canadians, to those who serve in the Canadian Forces, but there are also those who betray the trust that citizenship represents. Most of us receive our citizenship at the moment of our birth by being born in Canada. Many others receive it by earning it through residency, by following the law. Now there will be a few, only dual nationals, who, if they go to the absurd length of spying against this country, committing treason against this country, fighting the Canadian Forces with an enemy formation, will face the revocation of their citizenship for those reasons. These are measures that other democracies have, often in an even more robust measure. It is right that we should be able to expect that basic level of loyalty to Canada from dual nationals.
On April 28th, 2014. See this statement in context.