<p>[Canada</a> Issues a Wake-Up Call: You May Be a Citizen - WSJ.com ](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123993183347727843.html?mod=yhoofront]Canada ”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123993183347727843.html?mod=yhoofront )</p>
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Thanks to a new law, Canada will bestow citizenship Friday on what its government believes could be hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting foreigners, most of them Americans.</p>
<p>The April 17 amendment to Canada’s Citizenship Act automatically restores Canadian nationality to many people forced to renounce it when they became citizens of another country. It also grants citizenship to their children.
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<p>If you weren’t, you may be a Canadian citizen now :)</p>
<p>Great! Cheap healthcare and less expensive schools. Some might consider for retirement ;)</p>
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April 17, 2009, 11:46pm
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<p>Interesting. I may actually fall into that group. I wonder if there is a tax liability by becoming a Canadian citizen? eh?</p>
<p>^^no, as long as you do not have any property, any income there.</p>
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April 18, 2009, 12:09am
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<p>I am intrigued and may check this out some more. My mother (Canadian) became an American citizen, probably around 1950. I remember she told me how hard it was to renounce her Canadian citizenship.</p>