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By law your parents or grandparents must have come from France, Scotland or Ireland.


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13 Responses to “By law your parents or grandparents must have come from France, Scotland or Ireland.”

Comment from Maria
Time October 2, 2010 at 12:01 am

No. My grandparents are all Ukrainian, on both sides, and I’m a Canadian legal citizen. This law has either ceased to exist or is not at all enforced.

Comment from Sekinah
Time July 18, 2011 at 9:54 pm

I hoe that’s not true. Because a lot of my friends don’t have people that come from these countries.

Comment from Krista
Time July 25, 2011 at 10:13 pm

I’m Asian.

Comment from Me
Time July 26, 2011 at 3:13 pm

Is that an other way of excluding immigrants from other countries? I know I don’t have family from there.

Comment from Mike
Time July 26, 2011 at 10:56 pm

This doesn’t make sense…

Comment from a person
Time August 2, 2011 at 9:49 pm

i am a canadian citizen and my parents nore grandparents are from any of those countries

Comment from Erin
Time September 6, 2011 at 7:59 pm

my dad is from england… but canada is very welcome to immigration.

Comment from Kaitlyn
Time October 25, 2011 at 6:19 pm

NO. uh your stupid if you believe this law. i live in Canada & most of our country is citizens

Comment from FFS13
Time November 14, 2011 at 8:15 pm

This is not true, my cousin was born in New Zealand the same as me and is a Canadian citizen, has been for about 25years.

Comment from Annonymous
Time January 10, 2012 at 7:25 pm

This was an during the early 1900′s. It was in effect because Canada wanted to have only British citizens as immigrants coming in. But, later on as less and less British people moved over here, the government decided to open immigration to other countries in order to keep a steady flow of immigrants into the country. Now, in modern times, this law doesn’t have any power. The government regulates the amount of immigrants it takes in each year depending on the country.

Comment from Anonymous
Time January 23, 2012 at 4:58 pm

I study Canadian Customs and Immigration and there are no laws that say this in existence. Major limitations are due to health and criminal activity. NOT because of nationality. But I can believe this was legal during WWII period as we even had internment camps for the Japanese after Pearl Harbour. At that time we were also not accepting refugees or immigrants from Russia and Germany as well as Japanese and their decendents (despite they were American born or not).

Comment from Dawson
Time November 23, 2012 at 7:02 am

does nobody moderate the entries here? this is retarded

Comment from IOe093
Time April 20, 2013 at 10:08 am

WTH WRONG WRONG WRONG. Canada is very diverse in terms of ethnicity.

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