At the risk of wandering further astray of the topic:
ronaldoyaronaldo said:
dpenabill
I am curious to why are you closely monitoring the update on Bill C-24 if you have already gotten the citizenship? Don't get me wrong your posts are insightful, I even +1'd you, it'ss just usually members keep a close eye on the forum until they get what they're applying for, and afterwards they are nowhere to be found!
Actually I have tried to manage going through withdrawal. I am, without a doubt, a Citizenship and PR law junkie. In another forum I discussed my personal journey to citizensip, the
Me-and-My-Dog (RQ, the dreaded RQ) background. Ultimately I was not issued RQ and my timeline from application to oath was barely eight months. But I had long anticipated a high risk of RQ for me, even before (long before actually) the implementation of OB 407 in 2012, and consequently dove deeply into the citizenship application process going back to around 2009 (and had been paying attention to it prior to that), following all the news, reports, and actual cases, which had anything to do with requirements for citizenship but especially focused on the residency requirement, and the process for
residency-cases.
And of course the biggest change in Bill C-24 affecting the largest number of people is the revision of section 5 of the
Citizenship Act (from a strictly jurisprudence and fundamental principles of law perspective, the changes to grounds and procedure for the revocation of citizenship is a much, much bigger change, but it affects a very small number of people). Right up my alley so to speak (before Bill C-24 was tabled, just about a year ago, I had already posted, in multiple forums, dozens if not hundreds of posts referring to Federal Court justices railing about the need for the residency requirement to be amended).
In any event, I have continued to follow residency case issues and Bill C-24 in particular.
I am no expert, just another dude on the Internet, but I do have a long, formal, professional background in jurisprudence (albeit not Canadian) and, in the last quarter century or so that has been focused on writing about the law (professionally, for lawyers, just not Canadian lawyers) as my
day-job (although I tend to work nights for some reason), and given that in conjunction with the extent to which I have followed and researched this issue, I get the sense my observations are
for some (not everyone) informative, illuminating, interesting, and that on occasion I even help individuals to better understand the process in a way that helps some make better decisions in navigating their own way through the process.
In any event, I am trying to be informative and helpful. Other than some occasional stints serving dinner at a nearby shelter, giving some very senior citizens, one who will be 100 years old this summer, weekly rides to church, and this or that odd job -- like getting off the computer soon and going out to a church to do some snow removal -- I do not have a lot of opportunity to be of service to others, so the effort to inform and even sometimes help others by explaining what I have learned about the citizenship application process is one more effort I make to feel good about my life. I at least pretend I am helping. I surely hope I am.
Which actually does bring the subject back around to the effective date of Bill C-24.
There are bound to be credible rumours sooner or later, sometime before there is an official announcement as to the actual date the revised residency provisions will come into force.
There was a web page at the CIC site which just last week indicated the government was planning to accelerate the implementation of the revised provisions governing grounds for revoking citizenship
ahead of the schedule for the remaining provisions, with no hint though regarding the coming into force date for the revised residency provisions. However, I cannot duplicate the search that resulted in finding that CIC web page.
In the meantime, though, I give near
zero weight to claims that someone knows the date the revised residency provisions will come into force is in any particular month. I am confident the actual date is still a closely held secret within a very small circle of individuals close to Harper. I wonder if anyone at CIC other than Minister Alexander himself knows. If some do, again the number is almost certainly very few.
Because there is a fair amount of contextual information, including the notices and statements CIC issued last June 2014, which included the statement that the residency provisions would be in effect in "approximately" a year, many (including me) have safely
speculated that these provisions will come into force
this year, probably June or July, most likely between May and August, but we do not really know.
While the impending Federal election had probably influenced what Harper decided will be the date these provisions come into force, there is little or nothing to be gleaned from that as to what the date actually will be, and it is most likely that Harper and his inner circle (which has gotten smaller lately) already have decided on a specific date . . . and all we can do is wait for the news.
As I said, there probably will be credible rumours before the actual date is known, since CIC will have to make some major changes, at the very least to the application forms. There is no hint that any rumours to date are at all credible.
Final remark regarding my junkie compulsion: There are two contrasting (albeit not exactly opposite) perceptions of jurists:
once a lawyer, always a liar
or
the law is a jealous mistress
Either way, among those for whom the law is a profession, the law tends to become a compulsive obsession. Jurists tend to be law junkies. I am not a Canadian lawyer, but . . . well addiction is what it is. But I am also a writer, and writers tend to write, to write compulsively. The combination is not so bad as being addicted to a diet of uppers/downers but . . . well, again, addiction is what it is. Which means those uninterested in what I offer need to do a little extra scrolling in a few topics here. So it goes.
