That ain't right either! What is today Canada supported the Brits in their vain attempt off battling down the American Revolution. Which put strains on early US-Canadian relations for quite a while. Canada also offered a safe haven for those colonists who were not in favor of independence.
Don't you children learn anything in Canada any more?
Actually it is correct because Canada did not exist at the time. And I do not mean as an independant nation, I mean as a cohesive whole - it was various seperate colonies roughly analogous to the current provinces which were only united under Confederation (almost a full century later, more if you count when all the current provinces joined). We were all still Brittish citizens until the 70s, and since I never emigrated here until 1981, I was never British citizen.
You're off your lawyer game, here bud. Too much time in the boardroom vs the courtroom methinks.
They didn't teach us about Hessian mercs at all (it is, to be fair, a minor detail), but yeah, we totally learned about that one time we kicked the Yanks asses and burned down the first White House.
Col. Tavington! That's harsh Uwe. If anything, nationalism is the new patriotism and at least Canada was wise enough to stop allowing the practice of anchor babies.
Not sure how you mean, but if you were born here, you're a Citizen. This is something that cannot possibly be removed without risk of creating nationless people, which is a much more horrible proposition than some extra immigration. What I know they have done recently (just as despicable) is create a 2-tierd citizenship - anyone who has the prospect of foreign citizenship (even if born here and not currently having dual citizenship status, but merely being technically eligable, even if unaware of said eligibility) can have citizenship revoked under certain vague conditions (i.e. ccmmitting a "terrorist" act, anywhere in the world, also something about other foreign criminal acts; don't recall exact details). So basically, if I was in Poland and participated in a peaceful protest but got arrested, I could be de-Canuked, which is ridiculous. What's even more ridiculous, is to revoke the citizenship of a person who has no other citrizenship (I am dual) making them nationless (just because you're eligible, doesn't mean you are aware, and applying for it is difficult/impossible without some other citizenship due to, for example, lack of valid ID).
I am not sure (ping Uwe) but the whole citizenship by place of birth might be an international law thing, and for good reason. Eliminating it is not morally possible; a Trump-meets-quixote ideal just like those other proposals to deport 11 million current US illegals and build a wall along the Mexican border - both cost too much to be feasible and would not be effective in the long term (not worth the exorbitant cost).
