Chris Alexander balances his portfolio and power
2014/02/18 2 Comments
Konrad Yakabuski’s favourable profile of CIC Minister Chris Alexander:
Canada remains an outlier in that it has not seen a rise in anti-immigration politics. Making sure it stays that way requires striking the right balance to retain public confidence in our citizenship laws. C-24 largely gets this balance right, but Mr. Alexander has more work to do to make the case for its revocation provisions.
If he succeeds with the immigration file, as Mr. Kenney did, watch out. For Conservatives unenthusiastic about future leadership prospects Peter MacKay, John Baird or Mr. Kenney, the polyglot internationalist who recently aced his grilling on Quebec’s Tout le monde en parle – he took being compared to a Ken doll as a compliment – might just be the answer to their prayers. There is little doubt he has the brains.
“Chris understands the exercise of power,” says former deputy foreign-affairs minister Peter Harder. “He’s got tremendous gifts, the full potential of which have not been realized.”
Chris Alexander balances his portfolio and power – The Globe and Mail.
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Having lost my citizenship in 2003-4, I remain concerned about officially giving the Minister (any politician or bureaucrat) the right to revoke citizenship without a judicial process. Surely, citizenship is too important to bypass charges, the right to a fair trial and the right of appeal, none of which were provided when citizenship was taken from many Lost Canadians like myself. What is the sense of talking about “fixing” the Lost Canadians issue when the process of creating that problem will still (now officially) in place.
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