{"id":1209,"date":"2006-12-08T01:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2006-12-08T01:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T06:58:00","slug":"french-whine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"French Whine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surprisingly enough, the first major attack launched by the NDP and CPC on Stephane Dion is an assault on his dual Canadian-French citizenship. Despite all the bad blood among many of the contenders in the leadership race, we never even heard a whisper campaign about this (of course, had he been a dual Canadian-American citizen I doubt he could have won, but that’s a rant for another day).<\/p>\n

Dion appears to be going against his French instincts by refusing to surrender on this one<\/a>. If he sticks to his guns, I don’t think we’ll see much political fallout from this, if only because it’s easy to wrap yourself in the flag when defending it – “Canada is a great country because it is made up of people from many backgrounds. My loyalty is unquestionably to this great country which is why I’ve spent my life fighting for it<\/em>.” Or something like that.<\/p>\n

Still, the question of whether the Prime Minister should be allowed to have dual citizenship is a tricky one. Micha\u00eblle Jean gave up her French citizenship after she was named Governor General and if we’re going to require that of a figurehead, surely the same standard should be applied to the leader of the government, n’est-ce-pas?<\/p>\n

So while Dion could certainly hold his own in the duel over dual citizenship, in my opinion he likely should <\/em>voluntarily give it up as a sign he’s ready to be Prime Minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surprisingly enough, the first major attack launched by the NDP and CPC on Stephane Dion is an assault on his dual Canadian-French citizenship. Despite all the bad blood among many of the contenders in the leadership race, we never even heard a whisper campaign about this (of course, had he been a dual Canadian-American citizen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}