Vote #157 on May 29th, 2014

C-24 An Act to amend the Citizenship Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts

That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word “That” and substituting the following:

“the House decline to give second reading to Bill C-24, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, because it:

( a) does not provide an adequate solution for reducing citizenship application processing times, which have been steadily increasing;

( b) puts significant new powers in the hands of the Minister that will allow this government to politicize the granting of Canadian citizenship;

( c) gives the Minister the power to revoke citizenship, which will deny some Canadians access to a fair trial in Canada and will raise serious questions since Canadian law already includes mechanisms to punish those who engage in unlawful acts; and

( d) includes a declaration of intent to reside provision, which in fact gives officials the power to speculate on the intent of a citizenship applicant and then potentially deny citizenship based on this conjecture.”.

See context in the Debates.