Conservatives playing politics with Citizenship Act, say human rights lawyers

'It was just a lucky turn of events from the government’s point of view, that they were in a position to revoke Amara’s citizenship, and now that windfall has come to them they are going to exploit it as much as they can,' says Toronto lawyer John Norris.

PARLIAMENT HILL—A year-long delay between the day the Harper government passed a bill giving Cabinet the power to unilaterally revoke the Canadian citizenship of dual citizens convicted of terrorism crimes, national security offences and other acts and the date last June when Cabinet passe...

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