Surging Marine Le Pen Considers Banning Dual Citizenship In Public Office
“Canadian media downplay potential nation-changing French election, where female voters are flocking to Marine Le Pen’s RN Party.”
“Marine Le Pen and her party believe there should be several categories of French people. They intend to enshrine in the Constitution a ban on dual nationals holding certain public positions.”
In consideration of the current foreign interference scandal in Canada, it would be more than prudent for government to consider similar measures.In Canada, 56 foreign-born members, 22 of them with dual or triple citizenship, hold seats in House of Commons and Senate. Some notables include Liberal MPs Iqra Khalid(Pakistan), Ahmed Hussen(Somalia), as well as triple citizenship holder Salma Zahid (Pakistan, Britain, Canada).Canadian MPs hold citizenship from nations as diverse as Afghanistan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Syria, United States and United Kingdom.
A recent report on foreign interference from NSICOP offers a damning account of alleged corroboration between unnamed members of Parliament and foreign governments.“The report noted that Pakistan targeted democratic institutions and processes in the early phase of the period under review”. It said China, India, Pakistan, and Iran engaged in transnational repression.”Would it not be a common sense decision to ban dual citizenship for MPs in Canada?
We note the degree of political discourse suggesting this very thing. CBC? Nothing. Toronto Star? Nothing. Globe & Mail? Nothing. Common sense Canadians shouldn’t be surprised. PM Justin Trudeau wouldn’t make this move for all the tea in China. For him, dual loyalty to foreign nations is something to be rewarded.
Not so for another member of the British Commonwealth, the land down under, Australia.“Dual citizenship would disqualify them from holding office in Australia, where Section 44 of the Constitution bars anyone who is a citizen of a ‘foreign power’ from sitting in Parliament.”Can it be fairly stated that “some people” in our society are accepting of foreign interference?
CAP can see why “multicultural” non-profit organizations may possibly be in favour of such a thing. In 2017, a Muslim-Canadian non-profit enthusiastically endorsed the M103 “Islamophobia” motion tabled by half-Pakistani MP Iqra Khalid.As for the upcoming election in France, media in Canada are knowingly downplaying current events. French voters will head to the polls on June 30, 2024.
One week previous to the election support for Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party continues to surge.“French President Emmanuel Macron’s approval rating fell six points to match a historic low on Friday, with just over a week before voting starts in the two-round legislative election.”
French women voters are swinging sharply to the right.“Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration National Rally is tipped to win the most votes in a two-round snap election on June 30 and July 7 that could crush the liberal centrists of President Emmanuel Macron, and women are increasingly driving her party’s surging political fortunes.”Let us note the irony.
The Canadian government, along with media and academia, perpetually pump-up the need for gender equality in our society. Justin Trudeau champions the cause with vigor, appointing female MP to key roles within Cabinet.Yet, when the female tide comes in as decidedly “right-wing” in orientation, the powers that be are quiet as a church mouse. Pulling the wool over Canadian eyes, the “woke left” desperately hope none of this spills over into Canada. To minimize exposure, media systemically bury all that would detract from Trudeau’s iron-clad control of society.
When it comes to French citizenship in general, Le Pen said that she would “allow it only to people who have earned it and assimilated.”Not in Canada, eh? Pity. On our soil, convicted terrorists are coddled by our ruling government:“The Liberal Party believes that terrorists should get to keep their Canadian citizenship…because I do. And I’m willing to take on anyone who disagrees with that.”
Damn, this Trudeau character is one strange cat. Drilling down on the foreign interference scandal offers up an additional piece of damnation via the NSICOP report: “All forms of media, including mainstream media, are being subjected to interference by bad actors,” stated NSICOP chairman David McGuinty.Upon which we attain clarity on the situation. According to the report, both the Feds and legacy media are being subjected to foreign interference.
We gain insight as to reasons why the Liberals, CBC, CTV and the rest refuse to articulate political reality in France. Canada has a large French population. The more Quebecois who become aware of Marine Le Pen’s popularity, the greater the chances Canadians could follow suit. Result? A media “shut-out” on the current French election, one week away from fruition.Logic dictates that the time has come to minimize foreign subversion within our political system. One concrete measure is to ban dual and triple citizenship in the Canadian Parliament. Endorsement from Canadian media? Nothing, and keep on going downhill from there.
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France’s National Front Leader
Calls Canada’s Refugee Plan ‘Madness’
by Lisa Mayor, CBC News
November 28, 2015
French National Front Leader Marine Le Pen talks to the CBC’s Mark Kelley.
More from the interview tonight on the fifth estate. (CBC)
Marine Le Pen, the controversial leader of France’s far-right National Front, is scoffing at Canada’s plan to welcome 25,000 Syrian refugees with open arms, calling it “madness.”
“There. I’ve said it. Madness,” she said in an interview with the fifth estate. “There are other ways to do it,” she went on, adding that the “danger is real — false passports.
“A real passport given to Islamic fundamentalist in the influx of immigrants to enter the country with the intent to commit terrorist attacks. It’s a danger. And that’s what happened in Paris,” she claimed.
Le Pen — roundly criticized by many in France for what are seen as thinly-veiled racist positions — sat down with the fifth estate’s Mark Kelley as part of a special report that airs tonight called “Aftermath: How Paris Changed the World.”
- Watch the fifth estate: How Paris changed the world tonight at 9 p.m., 9:30 NT on CBC TV
- After Paris attacks, France’s National Front pursues its campaign of fear
- ‘Boy on the beach’ family coming to Canada: fifth estate
Le Pen is currently doing well in French public opinion polls, particularly in two regions in the southeast and the depressed north, where she is vying to be president of the area called Nord-Pas de Calais in regional elections set for early December.
Le Pen and her party appear to have received a boost by voter concerns about security after the attacks in Paris on Nov. 13. But her anti-immigrant stand worries many French voters, and France’s situation when it comes to immigration, multiculturalism and Muslim asylum seekers in particular is much different than Canada’s.
France has one of the largest Muslim populations on the continent already, one that has felt marginalized and excluded from employment and education opportunities and has been the scapegoat of the far right, including the National Front and its supporters.
In Calais, where she is running, Le Pen scares people like Hachim El Jazouli, a Muslim born in France of Moroccan descent and a longtime city resident
“I speak French better than maybe some French people,” El Jazouli said. “I really try to make my country better. But for the Le Pens, it is not enough, because I’m not white.”
Stop the migrants, Le Pen says
El Jazouli said that when Le Pen targets migrants living in what is known here in Calais as “the jungle,” a large refugee camp, he feels she is also targeting people like him.
But he says he refuses to think most French people are like Le Pen.
“I see in my neighbourhood, my neighbour and all the people they love me and I love them,” El Jazouli said. “Because we are French citizens.”
Those seeking asylum in France often end up living in massive refugee camps,
like this one known locally as the ‘jungle,’ situated near Calais. (CBC)
Le Pen said her solution to the migrant crisis is to kick them out and seal the borders.
“The influx of migrants must be stopped,” Le Pen told the fifth estate. “We know Islamic fundamentalists have infiltrated this flux of migrants to slip by unnoticed.”
In the refugee camps, Le Pen’s campaign of fear is unsettling those who have made it this far. They are afraid that after getting so close to their destination — for most here that would be England — they may soon be kicked out of France.
Alex Limousin is an aid worker in the Calais camp. She knows that keeping migrants in the camp isn’t a solution, but she also says that Le Pen’s solution of kicking migrants out isn’t the answer, either.
“Yeah, but where? Send them home? You can’t send them home when there is bombing, like in Syria and Iraq,” Limousin said.
“Send them home, we are just bombing them. How do you want to send them home? Say, go back to your country because we don’t want you here? I don’t think it’s a solution.”
Canada’s screening process
Experts say posing as a refugee would be an inefficient way for a person to enter Canada due to the many security screenings required to be granted asylum.
The United Nations Refugee Agency interviews individual asylum applicants, and flags about two per cent of them for resettlement. Canada has sent 500 officials overseas who individually interview those asylum applicants flagged to them by the UN before they can travel to Canada.
- Security at ‘very top’ of priorities in refugee plan, says Ralph Goodale
- Europe refugee crisis: EU says 3 million more migrants could arrive by end of 2016
Both the UN and Canada’s screening processes include questions about the person’s travel history and whether or not they have been part of a military, militia or other armed group. Biometric data is also collected.
“If you’re planning an attack, particularly a major co-ordinated attack abroad, the last thing you’re going to do is count on one of your attackers getting through the refugee and migrant streams,” security expert Wesley Wark said in a recent interview with CBC.
By contrast, France does not have a plan similar to Canada’s. European Union leaders continue to argue over what to do with the more than 700,000 people who have come to the 28-nation bloc seeking sanctuary or jobs so far this year.
COMMENTWhy are we accepting the father of the boy on the beach? He was making money transporting migrants by boat and took his family along to reassure passengers. He was going too fast.