I’ve got one hand in my pocket, and the other one is becoming an American.
Friday, 18 February 2005 by Jacob TomawAlanis Morissette has become an American. First of all I think it is great that she has become a citizen. However I am curious and the article does not give a reason why. She was Canadian and most of our neighbors to the north choose to keep the maple leaf passport while entertaining us.
Alanis said she now considers herself a Canadian-American and “will never renounce [her] Canadian citizenship.” Hmmm….Maybe she was not listening when she took the oath of citizenship. “I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen;”
I am just being mean, dual citizenship is the trendy thing these days. Our citizenship is the trump one around the world. The US does not officially recognize dual citizenship, it is up to the other country to recognize it. If a new American chooses to keep their former allegiances there is little the US can do until they commit treason.
If you claim to be a citizen of multiple nations does that mean you own income tax in all your home nations? I would watch out all you Canadian-Americans, without hockey the folks in Ottawa will have some time on their hands to think aboot things.