Citizenship and Immigration committee  On this issue, yes, it should.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As you mentioned, I went to our member of Parliament. My problem was that it was July 31 when I got the second letter. They'd passed it from case management to the Ottawa branch. As they worked on it, it was only the end of August when I got the notification of the third letter:

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You should take immigration out of citizenship. Everything I've heard—I don't mean to be disrespectful here, it's just the way it comes out when I'm sitting at home listening to things—says Citizenship and Immigration, but when there's discussion and debate in the House or it's o

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think I'm probably lucky that I don't have any citizenship anywhere else, or they would have probably shipped me there, because I've heard they've done that. And I find that degrading. I'd only comment on these age things. Do we have a shelf life, a “best before”? I mean, I kn

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —but, my God, at 70, do you have to throw me out? Come on, guys. Being born a Canadian, if you live out of the country and never come back, who have you hurt? But if you live here, you are a Canadian, and you're contributing, and you're giving to it—On my back, my people: every o

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The big thing is most of us don't pay attention until it hits us. We don't know it exists. I had no idea until I read that letter on July 31 that these things happen, and I feel guilty. The same thing happened to me and I could not talk to anybody. I was humiliated. I didn't want

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, it was a very good friend's funeral on Saturday. I couldn't go.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for allowing me this opportunity to address you, the lawmakers of my country and the citizens of Canada. I am Barbara Porteous; I am a Canadian. Canada says no, you are a 70-year-old woman without a country. On February 2 last year I applied for a replacement citizensh