Canada Blocks Citizenship for Russian Conviction for Criticizing Ukrainian War (opens in new tab)

Pathetic that this ragebait has ended up on HN. I am Canadian. There is no sweeping authoritarianism here.

Seems like the criterion should be the same as that for extradition.

As the article notes, the Canadian government has strong penalties for "misinformation" and even expressly true information likely to cause social unrest. So why would they want someone likely to at some point turn their desire to speak truth to power in the direction of some issue the Canadian government wants her to shut up about.

It's not incompetence or Kafkaesque, it's at some level a real concern to them.

As someone who also lives in a Commonwealth country, it's not surprising they ended up at this point.

Read the actual CBC article before this hysterical blog post.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/maria-kartasheva-russi...

This is just your average case of bureaucratic process, where they flag on technical truths (that the kind of conviction has similarities to any existing law in Canada, no matter how tenuous), and then the applicant explains the situation and it gets resolved.

Yes, it sucks that it caused such a situation in this obvious case, and it's stressful as hell, but the whole point of the explanation part is to keep edge cases from falling through the cracks.

This is deeply disturbing on all levels. Canada needs to get it together... I sometimes have the morbid thought to wonder just how much of a totalitarian Soviet satellite the U.S. will tolerate on its borders before taking action.

The more i learn about canada to more i rejoice i decided not to move there. It has such good pr outside but it’s such different in person. Imagine sharing your disapproval of russia’s - or any other country’s war actions - in ukraine only to end up in trouble in a country that claims to support ukraine. Truly frightening what that person must be going through knowing what expects her if she returns to russia, and worse, truly frightening once you realise that a country meant to provide safety is actually equally disrespectful of free speech.