Is Half a Leaf Better than None?

Andrew Coyne, with his usual spare, elegant, relentlessly rational style, makes the case against dual citizenship beautifully. See his blog, entry for November 8.

I have a personal interest here: my wife is Filipina, and though my son is a Canadian citizen, born in Canada, we were hoping to arrange dual citizenship for him. This would involve obvious benefits: he could own property in the Philippines, as non-citizens cannot, and still go to university in Canada at the lower local tuition.

But fair is fair. Dual citizenship means that there are two classes of Canadian, something that should be anathema in a democracy like Canada. It is, in effect, a colonial arrangement, with Canada the colonized.

As I have urged here before, dual citizenship should be ended.