You provided no link. Uh, I think you owed me one, for just a few hours ago I provided multiple link for yourself and another who had failed to provide source for what he was quoting word-for-word. Neither of the two of you gave any acknowledgement that I had done so...
But I can go look it up, to see whatever was said in context, and then should search a bit further than the Dallas Morning News, for I do have just cause for being not willing to take the Dallas Morning News as last word on anything, particualrly in regards to a conservative who they would love to cause harm to by adding to, inflating whatever could be puffed up and then presented in a biased manner.
That article would have had element of slant that skewed things, if they could have done that to make Cruz look bad (and get away with it). I was raised in the D-FW area, and so am acquainted with that publication...
As JimRob said of that newspaper on a recent thread; bird-cage liner, though I'd be willing to bet that the clock-boy series of stories has something to do with him saying that (and Mr. Robinson's comment not be necessarily include however it was they reported on Senator Cruz in regards to what we're talking about right here).
It’s easier to believe he’s lying than to believe he didn’t know.
So now it is you believing that he quote-unquote "lied" about it.
As far as I know, Cruz's life-long focus has been upon U.S. law, not Canadian law.
As it stands, since that Canadian citizenship would come about under Canadian law ---not under U.S. law and Constitutional traditions as those have played out historically within legislative and judiciary branches of U.S. government-- I personally do not find it impossible that; being as the now Senator from Texas has been such a devout student and admirer of the U.S. Constitution (there is no challenge to that, is there?) whatever status he may have had as Canadian citizen was in something of a blind spot to himself. And if not entirely not contemplated, then regarded as superfluous, not germane to his own status of U.S. citizenship acquired at birth, from his mother.
All his life (of what has been established well enough to accept) his allegiance and devotions have been towards the United States, himself being a citizen of the U.S. through the grace of past Acts of Congress having set stage for his own father to have received asylum, having fled an oppressive communist regime, and that same Congress having finally gotten around to (prior to his own birth) returning to recognizing that what such as Vattel wrote of regarding allegiances and citizenship be conveyed from father to children, include also conveyance from a mother to her own children equal to past paternal-alone considerations.
In effect, this would have made the man -- when just a lad and first becoming acquainted with the Constitution doubly grateful for being born classified as citizen of the United States from birth, himself possibly not taking that for granted so to speak, as do many Americans -- hence these considerations I've last mentioned being among causes for his lifelong dedication to the Constitution.
Personally, from what I've heard of Cruz's formal disavowal towards any citizenship status possibly recognized by Canada in regards to himself, the action that he took was prophylactic -- shutting off that possibility that he would somehow secretly within himself see himself as being Canadian.
There is abundant evidence (if but somewhat anecdotal remembrances of an assortment of individuals whom have been acquainted with the Senator during his lifetime) that his self-identification has always been U.S. citizen, having nowhere that has thus far come to light ever attempted to lay claim towards Canadian citizenship.
That may or may not matter to how Canada would have viewed persons in similar circumstances as Ted Cruz, but from U.S. law perspective, there are indeed residency requirements that must be met in order for Cruz to have retained the U.S. citizenship which he was born with. Those requirement were met long ago, when Cruz was still a minor.
You’re right. I owe you. I’m doing this on my cell phone so it’s a pain. It was planned parenthood wasn’t it? I will get back with you.