Will Canada vote for Barack Obama, 2020?
I just realise that it is POSSIBLE, if not likely, for Obama to actually be in a position where Canada can vote for him.
The minimum requirement for the position of PM, other than having majority parliament support, is to be a Canadian citizen of voting age. We don't have the birthplace requirement, our first two Prime Ministers were born in Britain, and it's just as well that we don't have the birthplace requirement. Maybe I have cause to be bias, I was born in Hong Kong...but more than where one was born, I think where one actually grew up, and where one was in the past decade, is more important.
US have the at least 35 requirement, born in USA, and they can serve no more than two terms.
Canadian Prime Ministers can serve Forevar so long as they have majority support, they have to be at least 18, and they can be citizens natural born or naturalized.
US citizenship requires a minimum of 7 years in USA, Canada requires a minimum of 3 years within the last 4 years...I don't quite know what to feel about that...I think it should be longer before newcomers can VOTE, but how long? I just know it's Problematic, when immigrants who can't even understand English (or French) yet, show up at the poll, and ask the poll clerk or DRO (my mother) who they should vote for. (The citizenship test must no longer be enough, there are people who cram it and then forget it afterwards...or they don't really understand what they've memorized at all...there got to be a reason why so many people who passed that test and could now vote, doesn't understand how stuff goes when they arrive at the polls)
Some immigrants naturalize faster than others (and it's not even a question of origin, there are Hong Kongers who are fluent in English and others like me who weren't). Maybe after 4 years, immigrants can have Permanet Residency, and then citizenship can come at eight years.
Exceptions should be be made where the immigrant in question was less than 18 when he or she arrives), naturalization occurs faster within public schools. Especially now that we have mandatory civics classes that teaches us HOW the system works, so that immigrant and naturalborn children who have attended public schools in the last ten years, understand how our government works better than Most Adults. I can't believe that most people in Canada don't know that the coalition would have been perfectly legal. It's not a coup, it's what the parliament system allow, governments are formed by the heads of your local ridings, who then pick a leader, none of us voted for Harper or Martin, we voted for our reps who then support (or at least accept) Harper or Martin.
The minimum requirement for the position of PM, other than having majority parliament support, is to be a Canadian citizen of voting age. We don't have the birthplace requirement, our first two Prime Ministers were born in Britain, and it's just as well that we don't have the birthplace requirement. Maybe I have cause to be bias, I was born in Hong Kong...but more than where one was born, I think where one actually grew up, and where one was in the past decade, is more important.
US have the at least 35 requirement, born in USA, and they can serve no more than two terms.
Canadian Prime Ministers can serve Forevar so long as they have majority support, they have to be at least 18, and they can be citizens natural born or naturalized.
US citizenship requires a minimum of 7 years in USA, Canada requires a minimum of 3 years within the last 4 years...I don't quite know what to feel about that...I think it should be longer before newcomers can VOTE, but how long? I just know it's Problematic, when immigrants who can't even understand English (or French) yet, show up at the poll, and ask the poll clerk or DRO (my mother) who they should vote for. (The citizenship test must no longer be enough, there are people who cram it and then forget it afterwards...or they don't really understand what they've memorized at all...there got to be a reason why so many people who passed that test and could now vote, doesn't understand how stuff goes when they arrive at the polls)
Some immigrants naturalize faster than others (and it's not even a question of origin, there are Hong Kongers who are fluent in English and others like me who weren't). Maybe after 4 years, immigrants can have Permanet Residency, and then citizenship can come at eight years.
Exceptions should be be made where the immigrant in question was less than 18 when he or she arrives), naturalization occurs faster within public schools. Especially now that we have mandatory civics classes that teaches us HOW the system works, so that immigrant and naturalborn children who have attended public schools in the last ten years, understand how our government works better than Most Adults. I can't believe that most people in Canada don't know that the coalition would have been perfectly legal. It's not a coup, it's what the parliament system allow, governments are formed by the heads of your local ridings, who then pick a leader, none of us voted for Harper or Martin, we voted for our reps who then support (or at least accept) Harper or Martin.