{"id":92050,"date":"2017-03-02T00:30:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T05:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=92050"},"modified":"2017-03-02T00:30:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T05:30:33","slug":"minister-open-to-allowing-appeal-process-in-revoking-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/02\/minister-open-to-allowing-appeal-process-in-revoking-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister open to allowing appeal process in revoking citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_92051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92051\" style=\"width: 856px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/8881_793168324139542_3116546431566669982_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92051\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/8881_793168324139542_3116546431566669982_n.jpg\" alt=\"Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says he's open to the idea of adding a new appeal process in cases where people are being stripped of their citizenship. (Photo: Ahmed Hussen\/Facebook)\" width=\"856\" height=\"856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/8881_793168324139542_3116546431566669982_n.jpg 856w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/8881_793168324139542_3116546431566669982_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/8881_793168324139542_3116546431566669982_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/8881_793168324139542_3116546431566669982_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says he&#8217;s open to the idea of adding a new appeal process in cases where people are being stripped of their citizenship. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AhmedHussenLib\/photos\/a.603509823105394.1073741825.601205023335874\/793168324139542\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Ahmed <\/a>Hussen\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA\u2014Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says he&#8217;s open to the idea of adding a new appeal process in cases where people are being stripped of their citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>He says he would carefully consider any amendments the Senate proposes to Bill C-6, echoing comments made last fall by his predecessor, John McCallum.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation would revoke some of the measures passed by the previous Conservative government, including a provision that would allow the government to revoke the citizenship of dual nationals convicted of terrorism or treason.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also eases up some residency and language requirements imposed by the Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Hussen has defended the bill before the Senate social affairs committee.<\/p>\n<p>He says he believes the legislation is sound, even though there is no guarantee of an independent appeal when someone loses their citizenship because of a fraudulent application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA\u2014Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says he&#8217;s open to the idea of adding a new appeal process in cases where people &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":92051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,6,16],"tags":[14378,1538],"class_list":["post-92050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-immigration","category-news","tag-ahmed-hussen","tag-citizenship","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}