civilengr said:
Hi I have a question:
What are the amendments about?
- There are three amendments which were accepted. I won't talk about the ones that were voted down because, well, they don't matter anymore Smiley
- The first amendment allows people who get their citizenship taken away because of alleged fraud in the application to appeal to a court before their citizenship is actually revoked.
- The second amendment changes the age for language requirement to 18-60.
- The third amendment allows minors to apply for citizenship even if their parents are not Canadian citizens and even if they don't apply at the same time as their children (a typical case would be a refugee child whose parents aren't with them anymore)
Referring to above, the residency requirement 3-5 will not be accepted even if the bill will be passed by HoC? Sorry I am not very intelligent if this doesn't come across an appropriate question.
No worries, this is a complicated business!
The bill consists of two parts, basically: The first part is the original version as passed by the house of commons. That part includes, among other things, the 3/5 rule. The second part is the amendments that are listed above.
If the HoC and Senate agree on a version of the bill, no matter if with or without amendments, the original content of the bill that includes 3/5 will still come into force. Maybe, depending on the outcome, some of the amendments ALSO come into force. But again, that doesn't change that all the original provisions are still there. In the Senate, they were discussing amendments that would have affected these original provisions, but they were all defeated. The only change that might happen is regarding 55 or 60 being the upper limit for language requirement.
If this bill passes, 3/5 will come. The only way 3/5 won't come is if this bill doesn't pass at all in any form from now on. The 3/5 is now an unchangeable part of the bill because it passed third reading in both chambers without being amended.
I hope that cleared things up.
