Posted on 07/18/2017 12:33:20 PM PDT by rickmichaels
An Australian senator has been forced to step down because she is a dual citizen of Australia and Canada.
The Australian constitution disqualifies potential candidates from seeking election if they hold dual or plural citizenship.
Larissa Waters, who was also the deputy leader of the Green party, told a news conference Monday that was only found out about her status on Monday with “great shock and sadness.”
Waters was born to Australian parents in 1977 while they were studying and working in Winnipeg.
She left Canada as an 11-month old baby and said she always believed she was just Australian.
Water said she also didn’t know she had to renounce the Canadian citizenship that was bestowed upon her at birth.
“I had not renounced since I was unaware that I was a dual citizen. Obviously this is something that I should have sought advice on when I first nominated for the Senate in 2007,” said Waters in a statement.
“I take full responsibility for this grave mistake and oversight. I am deeply sorry for the impact that it will have.”
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Does/Did Canada have “birthright citizenship?” Both her parents were Australian. How did she become a Canadian citizen?
Had she been a Kenyan she coulda been president.......
She’s never had to produce her birth certificate? Ever?
What’s Australian for ‘democrat’?
Could be that whole ‘commonwealth’ thingie.
At least she fesses up, unlike Cruz’s arrogance.
Cruz is back where he belongs. If all republican senators thought like him we’d be free of Obamacare and without some lame replacement. He’d be a good majority leader. Anyone would be better than the turtle.
He admittedly handled the presidential run badly.
GraceG wrote:
“We dodged a bullet it seems....”
Yep, we did.
How did she find out she had dual citizenship?
What’s Australian for ‘democrat’?
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DemocRAT isn’t commie enough for this Canuck ,, she was “green” party.
Larissa Waters, who was also the deputy leader of the Green party, told a news conference Monday that was only found out about her status on Monday with “great shock and sadness.”
Too dumb to be an MP, even in Australia.
He is ineligible.
I think she can get around that if she identifies as half-white.
I wonder who was the *second* woman to breast4feed her daughter, Alia, on the floor of the Australian parliament?
How come Trump said Cruz is eligible. Should we have a president who is that ignorant of the Constitution?
Should we? No. Do we? Yes.
Yes.
First world problems. “The Australian woman was DEVASTATED to find out she was Canadian”. LOL
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