The LiquidLegends Lounge - Page 161

The bills I was talking about are just topical / recent / current events, which is what I was trying to bring up to Numy.

The bills in and of themselves are more about broader xenophobia and the protection of the Canadian government / nation-state - so you're correct about this.

The bills do apply towards and affect American dual-citizens. However, some broader context is important to understanding this. Harper, our Prime Minister, basically worships America and tries to emulate almost everything America does. Canada and America already have agreements to deport each other's criminals to the appropriate courts (also the wrong courts in some cases) and whatnot so we don't really have American refugees, for example. Partially because of this, American/Canadian dual-citizens who lose their citizenship in Canada are likely to also face repercussions in American courts, but the chances of Canada detaining an American citizen for any extended period of time are remarkably low.

I didn't talk about this in my post (aside from in passing), but I want to now also make it clear that white supremacy is very rampant right now and all throughout Canada's history. I will build on this a little bit to explain why I brought it up at all.

Bills C-24 and C-51 are like chapter 25 in a long chain of similar laws. One of the key differences is that, as you guessed, these bills actually affect white people too (unlike most of the previous bills). So because the white anarchists, communists, dual-citizens, etc are finally riled up about our issues pertaining to citizenship in Canada, these bills are getting a lot more media coverage and such than the previous bills. This is what I meant when I said: "There's a lot of nation-state protection focused stuff passing lately that has people ruffled up because they finally affect white organizing/organizers whereas previously they were almost exclusively targeting Muslim and Indigenous groups."

To explain the racial/ethnic framework that these bills are previous bills are situated in gets a bit tricky, so this is a bit hard to summarize. Essentially, most of these laws aren't explicitly about white people (although they're often directly about race), but rather focus on shaping citizenship to fit the idea of a model "Canadian". This is very ingrained in Canadian society - for a brief example, we are taught all throughout elementary and high school that Canada is the product of two peoples and two languages: the English and the French, who constitute the two types of citizens here, Canadians and Canadiens (PoC and Mixed people aside, this obviously erases the people indigenous to the land). Throughout Canadian history, various laws have quite explicitly denied various races, genders, religions, etc the full benefits of Canadian citizenship. These are part of the ongoing shaping of the model Canadian, who is a nationalistic white cismale with citizenship status and some degree of christian influence, among various other qualities. Bills C-24 and C-51 are part of an ongoing narrative of "Canadian"-supremacy in Canada, where "Canadian" refers to a very narrow range of people that is intentionally kept narrow through law, and socially reinforced through various other institutions.