Citizenship and Immigration committee  I was raised to be very proud to be a Canadian citizen. Because my father was a U.S. citizen, I was entitled to live in the United States. I could even have confirmed my U.S. citizenship, but I didn't do that, because among other things the U.S. Citizenship Act did not allow for

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I never had any reason to doubt my citizenship, not even when I learned in school how our system of government worked, who is a Canadian citizen and who isn't. When I studied law at UQAM, I even took a course on immigration and citizenship. But I never had any doubts about my own

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It does.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. My husband lost his Italian citizenship in the 1980s when he became a Canadian citizen. At that time, Italian law did not allow for dual citizenship--someone taking out automatic citizenship.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It did not. In fact, when we were having Sunday lunch at my mother-in-law's, we would actually joke. When we began discussing Italian politics, soccer, or whatever, and my husband got involved in it, we would say, “You don't have a right to speak because you're not an Italian cit

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Exactly.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I acquired citizenship in Italy on the day of my marriage to my husband on June 18, 1974. Under the Italian citizenship act at the time, any foreign citizen who married an Italian citizen automatically gained citizenship. So according to the Italian law, my citizenship in Ita

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Chair. I would like to thank each and every member of this committee for having allowed me to come and appear before you and explain a little bit about my personal experience with the first Citizenship Act that Canada enacted after the Second World War. I was born in