I get the impression that Senator Curz didn’t even know that he had Canadian citizenship until this issue hit the media. I believe that it is true that he did not know he had Canadian citizenship at birth until he read it in the Dallas newspaper this week.
There are lots of people who were born overseas on American military bases, for example, who have no idea that tey are citizens of another nation AND American citizens. Just because you live in a foreign country doesn’t mean you know all of their laws.
It is particularly typical that Americans don’t always know about their Canadian citizenship.
Senator Cruz is immediately renouncing Canadian citizenship.
“I get the impression that Senator Curz didn’t even know that he had Canadian citizenship until this issue hit the media.”
He probably doesn’t know that he may be a Cuban citizen also under paragraph iii below, depending on if his father processed Rafael’s paperwork at the Cuban embassy/consulate in Canada (assuming this is a legal translation of Cuban law):
“ARTICLE 28
Cuban citizenship is acquired by birth or through naturalization.
ARTICLE 29
Cuban citizens by birth are:
i. those born in national territory, with the exception of the children of foreign persons at the service of their government or international organizations. In the case of the children of temporary foreign residents in the country, the law stipulates the requisites and formalities;
ii. those born abroad, one of whose parents at least is Cuban and on an official mission;
iii. those born abroad, one of whose parents at least is Cuban, who have complied with the formalities stipulated by law;
iv. those born outside national territory, one of whose parents at least is Cuban and who lost their Cuban citizenship provide they apply for said citizenship according to the procedures stated by law;
v. foreigners who, by virtue of their exceptional merits won in the struggles for Cubans liberation, were considered Cuban citizens by birth.
http://www.helplinelaw.com/law/cuba/constitution/constitution03.php