It’s the DALLAS MORNING NEWS. Because Molly Ivins and her gang were poring over the Canadian law books to find a way that Cruz might not have realized he was a Canadian citizen.
There are many ways that Ted COULD have been a citizen of Canada in 1978.
Had his father been a natural-born citizen of Canada, his father could have departed Canada for any number of years without having to document that he intended to maintain his citizenship, and Ted could have maintained his Canadian citizenship through his father.
Had either parent been a citizen of Canada at the time of his birth, he would have been a natural-born citizen.
Had his mother repudiated her American citizenship, he would not have been born a citizen of America, and the 1978 Canada Citizenship Act would not have excluded him due to dual citizenship.
As it stands, Ted ceased to be a Canadian citizen in 1978 due to his American citizenship, lack of birthright citizenship in Canada, absence of himself and both parents from Canada, lack of a natural-born Canadian parent, and lack of deliberate registration as a Canadian citizen (presumptiveness of the Canadian election system notwithstanding).
In 2009, Canada nullified its removal of his citizenship, without notification. In fact, his circumstance was quite unusual and he remarkably fell between the cracks. If he ever claimed to be a Canadian citizen, or his parents ever claimed him as a Canadian citizen, that documentation should be in the public record and very easy to find.
Why did you not even bother to read the article? You are dead wrong:
>>But under Canadian law, he also became a citizen of that country the moment he was born.
Unless the Texas Republican senator formally renounces that citizenship, he will remain a citizen of both countries, legal experts say.
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“He’s a Canadian,” said Toronto lawyer Stephen Green, past chairman of the Canadian Bar Association’s Citizenship and Immigration Section.
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“If a child was born in the territory, he is Canadian, period,” said France Houle, a law professor at the University of Montreal. “He can ask for a passport. He can vote.”
The fact that Cruz left Canada when he was 4 doesn’t affect his status there, either.
“If you leave when you’re 2 minutes old, you’re still an American. It’s the same in Canada,” said Allison Christians, a law professor at McGill University in Montreal. “He’s a Canadian citizen.”
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The situation reflects the overlapping jurisdictions, said Demetrios Papademetriou, president of the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute, who called birthright citizenship common in English-speaking countries.
“If Ted Cruz was born in Canada, he is Canadian. He is American. He is a dual citizen,” he said.<<
[These are only a sampling of the quotes. There are many more. You really should have read the article.]