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I’ve commented repeatedly on the tendency for legislation proposed by the Department of Citizenship and Immigration to contain measures that grant unaccountable authority to the minister. Why should the latest bill be any different? According to a CBC report on Bill C-43, which is up for debate in the Commons

Liberals rehire Vikileaks creator sacked after tweeting Toews’s divorce details A disgraced Liberal staffer who was fired after splashing the lurid details of a Conservative cabinet minister’s messy divorce all over Twitter in response to the Harper government’s Internet snooping bill has been rehired by the party. Adam Carroll is

Lawyers, that is. Nancy Leblanc at Impolitical reproduces the text of an open letter to Jason Kenney signed by more than 80 Ontario lawyers. They seem to be a bit displeased with Kenney’s behaviour. Also courtesy of Nancy, there’s an accompanying Globe and Mail story that provides the background. But

Jason Kenney, July 9, 2012: “(Soldiers) are heroes, but at the time, they’re British subjects,” Kenney said firmly, before explaining that there was no such thing as a Canadian citizen prior to 1947. He told Scott that her Ontario-born father was “clearly not, obviously not” a citizen during World War

I’m sure a lot of my fellow bloggers will be all over this story but I wanted my own copy to refer back to. I expect to get a lot of mileage out of this one. Federal bureaucrats pose as ‘new Canadians’ on Sun News Six federal bureaucrats were drafted

In a decision clearly aimed at Muslim women, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney recently ruled that no one should be allowed to take the oath of Canadian citizenship with his or her face covered. Kenney is selling this in the name of shared values but Andrew Potter isn’t buying

I’ve commented before on the tendency of the Harper Conservatives to craft legislation that gives cabinet ministers the ability to act without any check on their authority. They seem to think we’re electing them to rule instead of to govern. Here’s another example: The Tory crime bill will hand the

Regular visitors to this corner of the internet will know that I’m not in favour of our continued military presence in Afghanistan. But if we’re going to be there and we’re going to make promises to the individual Afghans who put their own lives at risk by supporting our efforts there, we really ought to keep those promises. A few months ago there were published reports about poor follow through on our promise to create a special visa program for Afghan interpreters who had worked with our troops and thus made themselves targets in the eyes of Afghans fighting on the other side. Things were progressing slowly when they progressed at all and as of last July, only 60 Afghans had been admitted to Canada out of 475 who applied. The pace of the processing of those applications might best be described as glacial. But that story at least reported good news for one particular interpreter, Sayed Shah Sharifi, who appeared to be finally headed to Canada. Or not….