No it's not. If someone wants to leave Canada, live, work, pay taxes and support the economy and social programs of some other country, then they do NOT have the right to vote here. IMNSHO they don't have the RIGHT to retain Canadian citizenship.
Sez you.... People like me DO have the right as Canadian Citizens to vote and we DO have the right to retain our Citizenship.
I lived 31 years in Canada and a little over 1 year in Australia, yet because I decided to move out of the country, you suddenly think you can strip me of my citizenship and refuse my right to vote due to spending a mere fraction of my life outside of the country??
T'hell with that, you can kiss me arse.
I have family and friends in Canada, I plan to come back as often as I can to visit my friends, my family and the lands where I grew up. In another couple of years, my family and myself may decide to move back to Canada to continue our lives & our future.
I'm free to do this, just as every other Canadian, within Canada or elsewhere around the world, all have the freedom to do this..... that's one of the good things about Canada and being a Canadian.... we can actually leave our country and explore the world around us without ending up being banished from our homeland because we decided to step outside of Canadian Borders for longer than some holiday on a beach.
Regardless of whatever the hell you think, I am still a Canadian Citizen and I have the exact same rights as you or any other Canadian, which means if I still want to be informed on what's going on in Canada, if I still want to be involved in elections and the kind of government that represents me and other Canadians and if I still give a damn about the lives and future the rest of my friends and family are facing back inside Canada.... I have every right to be involved.
Which says a hell of a lot more than half the wankers back inside Canadian borders, who claim they were born & raised in Canada, who still live in Canada, yet don't get involved in politics, who don't bother to vote, who probably contribute far less to Canada than I currently do & probably do jack squat in regards to helping their own communities...... yet you seem to have less concern about their "Rights" given to them than you do about other Canadians who decided to step outside of the borders of Canada.
I am Canadian.... my Wife is Australian.... over the next number of years of our lives, we will be bouncing between both countries and contributing to both countries, whether you like it or not.
What would you have us do? Shall I force my wife to spend the rest of her life in Canada and hardly ever having the chance to see her family back home?
Or should that be done to me and I am not allowed to come back to my home country & participate, & see my family less than I am now??
It doesn't matter what you'd have us do, because you don't get a say in what we do with our lives..... which is a good thing you don't have a say, since you're opinion on this matter is so ignorant & you think you can just cover every single situation & position of every single Canadian Citizen living abroad with one solution.
What you want is not a Democracy.... what you want isn't Freedom. You want to control Canadian Citizens and dictate when, where and how long any of us can step outside of Canadian Borders to see the world.
That might work for Hermits, The Ignorant, Close-Minded Rednecks & Paranoid people afraid of the world around them..... but luckily for the rest of us, not everybody is like that.
Funny how you'd want to punish your fellow Canadians for wanting to explore the world, experience different cultures, experience different ways of life and who want to better themselves by learning about the world around them.
Your above view would fit nicely down in the US since "most" there can't seem to see or understand anything outside of their own country & think the world revolves around them as the centre of the universe.
So many people around the world continually claim their nation is the greatest in the world, yet have never stepped outside of their own nation to know first hand if what they claim is true.
I guess I just have problems with free loaders.
What free loaders?
and for the mentally challenged, that would be people that take advantage of Canada's subsidized educational system, move, work, pay taxes and support some OTHER country, and then to add insult to injury, come back to Canada when they are older and once again take advantage of our subsidized social programs that they DIDN'T help pay for.
I spent all my working life, with the exception of the last year and a half, working in Canada, paying Canadian Taxes, Paying back all my Student Loans, Maybe Visited the Hospital or seen a Doctor 3 times in the past 15 years, I payed into my CPP, I've done everything you probably done and perhaps more..... while I am living in Australia, I do the exact same thing..... I am working in Australia, paying Australian Taxes, haven't needed to visit the hospital yet, payed into my Super (basically your CPP equivalent) and contributing to Australian Society while I am here, just as I did in Canada.
When I retire, regardless if it is in Australia or in Canada, I am retiring on the money I put into my own retirement..... If my last few years of work were in Canada and I moved back to Australia, I'd be taking my own money with me..... if I did the same in Australia and moved back to Canada to retire, again, I would take my money with me.
I would take the money I put into my CPP and add it to the money I earned in Australia and vice versa.
So I have no idea what kind of "Free Loaders" you're talking about, but I'm starting to think even you don't know what you're talking about.
