Isn't it Ironic?

When, supposedly, Americans who can't take Bush anymore are lining up to get into Canada, another high-profile Canadian has become an Amercian citizen.

LOS ANGELES - Canadian Alanis Morissette (news) is now an American citizen.

he 30-year-old singer was among some 4,500 people who took the citizenship oath during a ceremony last week at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Morissette isn't turning her back on Canada — she's maintaining dual citizenship.

"I will never renounce my Canadian citizenship," Morissette said in a statement Wednesday. "I consider myself a Canadian-American.

"There was a turning point during the ceremony where I felt connected to this country in a way that I didn't quite expect," she said. "America has been really great to me and I have felt welcomed since the day I came here."

I don't know anything about the laws regarding dual citizenship, but I thought that one was compelled to renounce all other citizenships upon becoming a naturalized US citizen unless there is some parental or marriage features.

Here is an information site if you care.

 

Comments

[Drew]

But we didn't want her!

[Dave Schuler]

Not only is dual citizenship now legal we have no legally accepted procedures for revoking citizenship. I think it's an important issue but, then, what do I know? For example there are no prohibitions against holders of political offices in other countries (who are also American citizens) from voting in American elections or running for office here.

[Bachbone]

I don't know anything about the young woman, but would gladly swap her for Alec Baldwin, Michael Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Kim Basinger, Julia Roberts, the Dixie Chicks, Meryl Streep, Ted Danson, Martin Sheen, Ed Asner, Sean Penn or any other member of the America haters in Hollyweird. Or perhaps some Canadian Indian tribe would be willing to confer honorary membership on Ward Churchill and take him off our hands? I think there must be something in the Bible about an "eye for an eye," or "a loon for a loon."

[Drew]

Bachbone: She played God in the movie "Dogma" so unless you're getting rid of all the ones you mentioned in one fell swoop, you probably wouldn't be getting much of a deal. ;)