Premier Moe, you need to invoke immediate long-term residency requirements to prevent Carney’s shiny new voting base from accessing provincial services (health care, chief among them) or there won’t be a province left to service.

What does it actually do?

•Ends the “first-generation limit” on citizenship by descent, introduced back in 2009 under Harper.
•Automatically grants or restores Canadian citizenship to tens of thousands of “Lost Canadians” and their descendants born abroad before the law – even if they have zero recent ties to Canada.
•Going forward, allows Canadians born abroad to pass citizenship to their kids born overseas if the parent spent at least 1,095 days (3 years cumulative) in Canada at any point before the child’s birth.
•No time limit on accumulating those days, no language/test requirements in the final version – opposition amendments for tougher checks were voted down.

Update: SDA gets results

@ABDanielleSmith

Albertans are tired of the last 10 years of the federal government’s unsustainable immigration policies putting huge burdens on our education, healthcare, and housing sectors.

It’s time we start having a hard conversation about exercising more control over immigration policy and whether the province should limit eligibility for social services only to citizens, permanent residents, and individuals with an immigration permit granted by the Alberta government.

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