Comments on: Patriots unite! Renounce your Canadian citizenship!

By: brenda

brenda — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:33:59 +0000

to Nigel Higginbottom

French is the olympic language because Pierre de Coubertin, who “invented” the olympics, was French thus, by tradition, the official language of the Olympics is French.
Traditionaly, English is the business language and German is the science language.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:52:13 +0000

What I really like is the bit at the end of the website where it basically says, “If you followed the instructions above, congratulations! You’re now a stateless person. Now just bear with us while we wait for the Chinese embassy [which obviously thinks we’re crazy] to get back to us on how to apply for Chinese citizenship.”

By: Nimrod

Nimrod — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:08:18 +0000

Come on, guys. This is most obviously satire within the Chinese community.

By: Pascale Veraquin

Pascale Veraquin — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:06:09 +0000

Many Chinese-Canadians are “citizens of convenience”. They hold passports but rarely reside in Canada. So no big deal if they renounce citizenship.

But we should be thinking of ways to force Chinese-Canadiens to contribute back to our economy. Most of them are fabulously wealthy. Investment is always welcome, especially in Quebec

By: chris

chris — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:26:52 +0000

I can’t see how that would be a bad thing for Canada. Anyone wanted to stay is welcome, anyone wishing to leave should piss off back to China and enjoy the pollution.

It makes me so angry when people emigrate and than carp on about the old country.

By: reaver81

reaver81 — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:57:26 +0000

This is one of the odder things to come out of the Tibet-Olympics-Protests. I wonder if the Daily Show will have a segment on it.

By: Nigel Higginbottom

Nigel Higginbottom — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:43:15 +0000

Quebec is and has always been part of the empire. Bonk Bonk on the head to any quebec splittists. The 100 years war and the 30 years war will not ever be forgotten, no matter how the sino-french clique try to spin this with the evil eastern media. I call for all loyal britons to protest the IOC and their partners the CCTV trying to make french the official language of the 2008 olympics. the official language is english. no french bread will be served this august only fish and chips, bonk bonk on the head to the traitor’s and biased media stay out of the internal affairs of the british empire.

By: Amoiist

Amoiist — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:14:24 +0000

Thank you for the link, black & white cat. It’s quite funny. I think the oversea Chinese love China better than those live in China mainland. Canada is a free country, if someone wants to give up his/her citizenship, he can give it up at any time or even privately. They don’t have to renounce the Canadian citizenship, if they don’t want the citizenship, just go back to China at any moment!

By: rob

rob — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:12:38 +0000

I would be extremely surprised if such a law existed, Barney. I’ve certainly never heard of it. There is a discrepancy between laws which stress ethnic equality and practice which often fails to achieve that stated goal. But that’s a different thing altogether.

I would expect such a discriminatory law to be at the top of this quite critical appraisal of China’s ethnic policy - much of which I agree with, though some seems a little odd given Western policy on the same issues (eg. the complaint that Sharia law is not implemented in Xinjiang).

By: Barney

Barney — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:38:49 +0000

I find it funny when Chinese say minorities get so many advantages of the Han majority. Mostly because there is a state law that Han, according to my Chinese wife, are the only people allowed to hold the highest seats in the Chinese government.