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From: Annette Fulford <>
Subject: [WARBRIDES] CBC News - Citizenship problems for war bride children
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:16:59 -0800


CBC News

Friday, February 2, 2007

No fast-tracking of citizenship for children of WW II troops

The federal government is helping Canadians who lost their citizenship due
to an obscure section of the Citizenship Act - but not if they were war
babies, CBC News learned Friday.

'My whole existence they're tossing into the garbage without a second
thought.' -Sheila Walshe of Kelowna, B.C., a war baby

Many of those people only found out they weren't considered Canadians when
they applied for passports recently. The little-known law, which was in
effect from 1947 until 1977, required people born outside the country to
confirm their Canadian citizenship before their 28th birthday.

To read the remainder of the article, click on
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/02/02/citizen-war.html


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