Citizenship is granted to everyone born in Canada, as well as children born to Canadian parents who are born abroad. There is no real legal mechanism for revocation.

Canadian passports are issued to Canadian citizens.

This seems like a pretty valid legal question?

[–] kahnclusions@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

There is no real legal mechanism for revocation.

There is. Parliament has the right to control how citizenship is obtained and lost, it's governed by federal law. If Alberta actually passes a referendum and gets it past the clarity act, you can expect that Canada will be looking into updating the Citizenship Act. They can create whatever legal mechanism they want as long as they don't leave people stateless or apply it in a way that is unjust (according to the supreme court and constitution).

It would be a huge legal battle but it's something that the federal government will hold over the province in a secession negotiation, and the final settlement between Canada and Alberta would include an agreement about how to handle citizenships.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They can create whatever legal mechanism they want

Which means, by definition, there isn't one now, which is what I said.

[–] kahnclusions@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well, sure, okay, sorry my wording was bad. I wanted to clarify because your comment might sound to readers like it’s not possible. The law doesn’t provide for revocation today, but it easily could do tomorrow, if parliament wills it.

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