Federal Court dismisses bid to stop feds revoking citizenship without a hearing
OTTAWA — A bid to stop the federal government from revoking Canadians’ citizenship without a hearing has failed.
Federal Court Justice Russell Zinn has dismissed a case brought by the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association.
The two advocacy groups had sought a stay of a section of the Citizenship Act which allows the government to revoke the citizenship of anyone deemed to have misrepresented themselves — a provision which they argued could potentially ensnare Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef.
Monsef last month discovered that she was born in Iran, not Afghanistan as she’d always believed.