I don’t think it matters. Do you?
Living in another country while you’re an MP... that should never happen.
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That's not quite what happened. You can approve or not but she doesn't live there.
Accusing Conservatives of being hypocritical in the past over dual citizenship is fair but it has nothing to do with Scheer not renouncing his US citizenship. He has been criticized for hiding it, which he didn't, he just didn't advertise it. He should have. There are currently 44 MP's and 12 Senators who were born outside Canada, at least 22 have citizenships in another country and some of them are in cabinet. Dion and Mulcair are both dual citizens. Anyone who would accuse Scheer of divided loyalties because of his citizenship should be questioning their own objectivity.
Scheer will no longer be leader so whether he renounces his US citizenship or not is a personal matter. Who cares.
As for breaking promises, Trudeau promised modest 10 billion deficits to kick start the economy returning to a balanced budget by the end of his first term. Instead he added 80 billion to the debt and Morneau's December update was forecasting adding another 97 billion to the debt by 2025.
Seems to me the dual citizenship of one person should have been small potatoes next to over 170 billion in added debt.
Now we will be adding hundreds of billions more debt by 2025 but that is another story.
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