Canada's digital nomad remote work scheme

Meir Kahane was a particularly vicious racist who formally renounced US citizenship in order to stay in the Knesset. After he lost the election he sued to get his U.S. citizenship restored but didn't succeed. It's odd to me that he continued to be allowed to visit the U.S. though. If he were a Palestinian politician with the same record I rather imagine we'd have barred him.

He was duly assassinated which made him into a martyr for the nastiest parts of the Israeli Hard Right.

The point of the story is that Kahane didn't lose his U.S. citizenship due to being in the Knesset. He lost it because he deliberately and intentionally relinquished it. But once lost he became an alien for all purposes.

 

The District Court's ruling is well worth reading. 700 F.Supp. 1162 (1988)

 

One of the most famous renunciations of Canadian citizenship was by Conrad Black, the writer and former newspaper operator.

In 2001 while Black was dual citizen of Canada and the UK, the British Conservative leader recommended him for a life peerage in the British House of Lords (Black was principal owner of the Conservative Daily Telegraph).

Canadian policy continuously since 1935 has been that no Canadian citizen should receive a new British title of nobility, and this was symbolically important in the gradual establishment of independence of Canada from the UK.

The Jean Chrétien Liberal government asked the Queen not to award the peerage to Black. Black challenged in Canadian court but the government won. Black renounced his Canadian citizenship and took the peerage becoming Baron Black of Crossharbour. He remained married to a Canadian citizen.

A few years later he was sent to US federal prison for fraud. Upon release he was deported to Canada (!), which he re-entered as a non-citizen permanent resident.

He regained Canadian citizenship through naturalization this year. He still holds the life peerage.

 

I think once he renounced, he was eligible under tourist visa provisions and similar so I don't see why we would bar him. He didn't renounce in order to engage in war against the US, but to serve in a foreign, allied legislature.

 

But he was convicted of attempting to manufacture bombs for terrorists.

 

Interesting. Had his lordship been tried in the UK trial would have had to be by the House of Lords, they being his "peers", right?

 

That I was unaware of, and does change the calculus.

 

That came as a big shock to me ... because I thought you were talking about Conrad Black. Didn't seem the sort of thing he would do.

 

Oh, historically speaking, I wouldn't put anything past Their Lordships.

 

Also, his purpose was to solicit contributions from certain American right wing Jewish groups for his violent cause. Not a nice man, the Rabbi.

 

Canada poaches U.S. H-1B workers.

The Canadian government is recruiting high-skilled foreigners working in the United States to move to Canada instead, and the programme has been so successful that it met its target of 10,000 applicants within the first day.

The government this week launched a special work permit for foreign workers who already have obtained an H-1B visa in the US, who number nearly 600,000 and come mostly from India and China.

https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/world-news/20230719/h-1b-visa-foreigners-us-flock-jobs-canada

 

US employers - don't worry.When your H1-B people find out how little our money is worth, they'll go back to the US immediately.

 

I'm sure it's still better than what they'd earn in China, India, or many places around the world.

 

Yeah - WAY better. But not like the US. There's universal health care, though. All in all, I'm staying put.

 

And no mass shootings to worry about.

 

Oh, there are shootings in Canada as well as extreme Right Wing white supremacy groups. Canada is a lot more like the U.S. than even I like to think.

 

Mass shootings in Canada pale in comparison to the U.S. Canada had about 4 mass shootings in 2022 and 2 so far this year. Heck, the U.S. holds the world's record for mass shootings. Let's not even go there!

 

@nosborne48 Chris is right. And how is the US in Comparison? Over 200 mass shootings so far this year - 2023. And it's only July.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081

 

Oh, I never said Canada has AS MANY shootings as we do but to say Canada has NONE is simply wrong.