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Re:We discovered our parents were Russian spies by computator on Sunday May 08, 2016 @03:03AM (#11653012)
Earlier you wrote:

> it was discovered that they had never been Canadian citizens in the first place. Their parents lied to them and told them that they were Canadians

You misunderstood a key fact from the article: They were born in Canada.

"You are probably a Canadian citizen if you were born in Canada", according to:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizenship/rules/index.asp

where "probably" means there are very obscure exceptions that only a bureaucrat can dream up.

Re:We discovered our parents were Russian spies by MichaelGG on Sunday May 08, 2016 @03:48AM (#11653115)
Unless born to foreign government [government] workers.
Re:We discovered our parents were Russian spies by Symbiote on Sunday May 08, 2016 @06:18AM (#11653442)
To make this clearer:

This means diplomats, ambassadors, and other staff working in embassies etc. They get immunity from Canada's laws, and usually taxes, but in return get no benefits from being there. They aren't considered residents of Canada.

Re:We discovered our parents were Russian spies by takno on Sunday May 08, 2016 @08:20AM (#11653722)
The taxes thing was a pain when I worked in stores in Canada. You'd get about 10 customers a day presenting some kind of ID and claiming to be exempt from either gst or PST, and as a till monkey you'd have no knowledge or training in whether they were exempt or whether the IDs were legit. Add on people buying 6 cakes to avoid gst, and you might as well just press random tax buttons on the register
Re:We discovered our parents were Russian spies by FatalLogic on Sunday May 08, 2016 @08:21AM (#11653724)
Probably that was the spirit of the law, but the letter of the law happens to cover the sons' situation. It's an unlikely edge case that the people who drafted the law could never have foreseen.