Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is a dual Canada-U.S. citizen
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Jason Martin So what. That's Scheer's business.
Keep your dual citizenship. I'll still vote for you.
JAMES LINDSAY
Reply to @Jason Martin: With a dual citizenship the U.S. imposes taxes on income made anywhere in the world. Therefore there is the possibility Canadian taxes paying MP salaries may in turn be going to the U.S. I don't think that is right. Where does his loyalties lie? Similarly he lied about his career as an insurance broker. No credibility.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Jason Martin: Methinks its everybody business if Scheer wants to be the CANADIAN Prime Minister Furthermore I wonder why he was allowed to be the Speaker N'esy Pas?
Arlond Lynds Your boy Harper thought it was a really big deal
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @JAMES LINDSAY: I Wholeheartedly Agree As so as I read this I wondered why FATCA didn't bother him. Methinks folks should Google the following and ask Scheer and Trudeau some serious questions about taxation ASAP N'esy Pas?
Trump Cohen Amos FATCA NAFTA TPPP
John Oaktree Reply to @Jason Martin:
Conservatives tell me that dual citizens aren't real Canadians.
I've actually had Conservatives tell me they h8 dual citizens and that they should be deported.
Oh - but now you love them...
Jason Martin Reply to @John Oaktree: Don't paint everyone with the same brush. And never assume anything.
Jack Adam
Reply to @Jason Martin: Ignatieuf was a dual citizen and conservatives lost their minds.....But now it's fine.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @John Oaktree: Methinks the conservatives should read these words of their leader again real slow N'esy Pas?
"Scheer raised concerns about former Governor General Michaëlle Jean holding both Canadian and French passports in a 2005 blog post.
"I have a few quick questions for anyone who thinks that Michaëlle Jean is a good choice to be our next GG," Scheer wrote. "What are her qualifications? What experience does she have that would assist her to carry out her duties as our head of state, including the potential to be a referee in a minority government situation?"
He also asked his constituents if they felt it was appropriate for Jean to maintain her French passport.
"Would it bother you if instead of French citizenship, she held U.S. citizenship?" Scheer asked."
Taliones Stone
Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Andrew Scheer a hypocrite? Say it isn't so.
Jason Martin
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Reply to @Jack Adam:
What are you basing that on? This forum?
David Raymond Amos
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Reply to @Jason Martin: Methinks I should base this comment on the fact that its rather obvious to all who are posting within this thread that you are blindly supporting a hypocrite N'esy Pas?
David Raymond Amos
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Reply to @Jason Martin: Methinks the comment of mine that was just blocked tells the tale on this thread This all will go "Poof" in short order of that I have no doubt N'esy Pas?
David Raymond Amos Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Methinks the liberals should be grateful for my screenshot and my blog but we all know why they won't N'esy Pas?
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Taliones Stone: Methinks its too bad so sad that you can't read what else I said Perhaps you should Google "Fundy Royal Debate" sometime At least David Mcnaughton would be relieved to know that I did not say N'esy Pas once on live TV N'esy Pas?
Johnny Cascades Reply to @George Carter: Whataboutism doesn't constitute a defense for Scheer here. Trudeau is a disappointment and a lightweight. Does that make Scheer's (or the CPC's) hypocrisy on dual citizenship weight any less? Nope.
I am a possible CPC voter in this federal election and have voted for right-leaning parties both municipally and provincially.
Every party has their hacks and inane posters. But the reflexive "whataboutism" I encounter from CPC supporters has kept me from supporting that party in the past and possibly again this time around.
Trudeau is so very beatable. If the LPC gets a majority again, its on the CPC and that segment of its base that can ONLY use lazy labels and "whataboutism"
Mark Axworthy
Reply to @Johnny Cascades: don't bother, we don't want your vote
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Mark Axworthy: If he lived in Fundy Royal methinks I would fell honoured to have freethinker such as Mr. Cascades:vote for me Even if you don't agree on some things this is supposed to be a democratic election not a team sport N'esy Pas?
Jason Martin Reply to @Jack Adam: What are you basing that on? This board?
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Jason Martin: Methinks you already tried that question once already and everything went "Poof" N'esy Pas?
Walter Rogers
Move along, folks. Nothing to see here. The biggest non issue of the election.
Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Oh My My two of my comments in a row go "Poof" Methinks thats a rather telling thing about a severe lack of integrity on somebody's part N'esy Pas?
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Walter Rogers: Oh My My Methinks the shenanigans within this thread were very predicable N'esy Pas?
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Walter Rogers: "Move along, folks. Nothing to see here."
Methinks thats because the comments with important issues keep going "Poof" N'esy Pas?
David Fairbairn Wish I had that. I'm envious.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @David Fairbairn: Methinks Mr Scheer and everybody else knows why i went to great lengths to secure my children's Canadian citizenship N'esy Pas?
David Mcnaughton Reply to @David Raymond Amos: hey give the N'esy Pas a break
Marcus Pilkington Reply to @david mcnaughton: if I could up vote you more I would. You wonder about his intelligence at the overuse of such expressions. Remember the valley girl "like, OMG!" phrase? This is equally mind numbing.
David Raymond Amos Reply to @david mcnaughton: Methinks it would not be wise to do so in light of the fact that I am on the ballot in Fundy Royal again and a lots folks speak Chiac around the Bay of Fundy. I know SANB/liberal supporters such as Margeurite Deschamps and Marc Martin would be very disappointed if I did. Furthermore Anglos such you and I don't count for much in their book while they are taking a tally on Dominic Leblanc's supporters in another election N'esy Pas?
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Marcus Pilkington: Cry me a river
Terry R Avante Elizabeth May was born in the U.S too CBC.. no headline about her.
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Terry R Avante: Good Point
Frank G. Castiglione Thats some hard hitting reporting, No blackface, LavScam, but almost a Resumegate.
Joan Wagman
Reply to @Frank G. Castiglione: Yet it was Scheer himself that was braying about how our previous GG should not represent Canada because she was a dual citizen of France.
Despite your desperate posturing, Canadians remember that.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Joan Wagman: Methinks we were reminded of it by this article if we didn't know it already N'esy Pas?
Bill Edward Goate That's fine.
Dan Cooper
Reply to @Bill Edward Goate: Yet Scheer was against a PM having dual citizenship when Ignatieff was running.
Conservatives always throwing mud and partisan temper tantrums.
History always makes you guys' childish talking points come back at you
Doug James Reply to @Dan Cooper: Yes. Did you miss the part where he started the process of giving up his US citizenship when he became party leader? He's holding himself to the same standard.
James Holden Reply to @Doug James: Scheer started the process 45 days ago. It would have been done by now if he started when he was elected CPC leader. It's another example of scheer trying to play both sides. When he loses on the 21st he will cancel the process and retain his US citizenship.
David Raymond Amos Reply to @James Holden: I concur
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is a dual Canada-U.S. citizen
Spokesperson says Scheer is in the process of renouncing his American citizenship
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer pauses for a moment as he gives his morning address at a volunteer fire department in Upper Kingsclear, N.B. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States.
The Globe and Mail reported Thursday that Scheer's father is an American by birth and passed along the citizenship to Scheer and his siblings.
Daniel Schow, a spokesperson for the party, confirmed Thursday Scheer decided to renounce the citizenship after he became Conservative leader.
Schow said Scheer started the processing of renouncing his citizenship in August, before the federal election campaign started, and the paperwork is now being processed by the U.S. government.
"Like millions of Canadians, one of Mr. Scheer's parents was born in another country and immigrated to Canada to start a family. He and his sisters received United States passports as children and Mr. Scheer has not renewed his as an adult. He has not voted in any United States election," Schow said in a statement.
The current wait time to renounce U.S. citizenship is roughly nine to 10 months for applications filed at the U.S. embassy in Ottawa.
The leader has faced questions about his past in recent days after it was confirmed Scheer was never actually licensed to sell insurance, even though his party biography cited his past work experience as an "insurance broker."
Scheer has said since he was accredited but never licensed to sell insurance at the Regina firm he worked at for six months before he was elected to Parliament at the age of 25 in 2004. Scheer's private sector experience includes this short stint in the insurance world and waiting tables at restaurants while in university.
Scheer raised concerns about former Governor General Michaëlle Jean holding both Canadian and French passports in a 2005 blog post.
"I have a few quick questions for anyone who thinks that Michaëlle Jean is a good choice to be our next GG," Scheer wrote. "What are her qualifications? What experience does she have that would assist her to carry out her duties as our head of state, including the potential to be a referee in a minority government situation?"
He also asked his constituents if they felt it was appropriate for Jean to maintain her French passport.
"Would it bother you if instead of French citizenship, she held U.S. citizenship?" Scheer asked. Jean renounced her French citizenship before she was sworn in as Governor General and commander-in-chief of the Canadian Forces in 2005.
Under the leadership of former prime minister Stephen Harper, the Conservative Party accused former Liberal leader Stéphane Dion and former NDP leader Tom Mulcair of having divided loyalties as both men had dual Canadian and French citizenship while holding public office.
When asked about Mulcair's citizenship, Harper said in 2015 it was up to Mulcair to decide whether to keep the French passport or give it up. "In my case, as I say, I'm very clear. I'm a Canadian and only a Canadian," Harper said.
A past CBC News investigation found at least 56 parliamentarians from the 2015-19 Parliament, including 44 MPs and 12 senators, were born outside Canada. At least 22 of them have citizenship from other countries. Scheer's U.S. citizenship was not then widely known.
