this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
263 points (99.3% liked)

Canada

9424 readers
1439 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


🍁 Meta


🗺️ Provinces / Territories


🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales


🗣️ Politics


🍁 Social / Culture


Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

This is the correct take—no matter what the heart tells us in the moment, it's important to remember that citizenship is a big deal.

I'm more inclined to look at it from another angle, that if he has citizenship in Canada he should, as a person of means and influence, also bear certain responsibilities to preserve the shared values of Canadians and respect the rights of the people who live there. Deliberate acts which endanger those values, particularly given his degree of influence, should face penalties or some other punishment based on his responsibilities as a citizen, and if he disagrees with that he is free to give that citizenship up.

If Canada is looking for ideas, I can say that the US has it in law that all American citizens are still required to file taxes even on income earned abroad, which is crazy but has been a thing for a long time. Maybe Canada could come up with a nice billionaire's tax that applies to expats and their foreign assets, which could either bring in some good money or drive away the leeches for good.