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Canada Crashed a Europeans-Only Club. Carney Pledged $270M While He Was There, and One in Four New Hampshire Residents May Already Be Canadian Citizens.
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Canada Crashed a Europeans-Only Club. Carney Pledged $270M While He Was There.
Canada became the first non-European country ever invited to the European Political Community summit on Monday, when PM Mark Carney addressed 48-plus world leaders in Yerevan, Armenia - and announced $270 million in new military aid for Ukraine.
The EPC was set up in 2022 after Russia's invasion and has met twice a year since, drawing EU members and their neighbors including the UK, Turkey, Norway and Serbia. Canada had never been in the room. Carney used his address to argue that the international order will be rebuilt, and that it will be rebuilt out of Europe - a pretty deliberate signal about where Ottawa is orienting itself given Washington's current behavior.
On Ukraine, the $270M brings Canada's total since the invasion to $25.8 billion. The money goes toward items from a NATO procurement list. Carney met with Zelensky on the sidelines and told reporters the contribution is "part of a bigger puzzle in a conflict where Ukraine is gaining some advantage."
For Canadians living in Europe, it's a reminder that their home country is trying to plant its flag on the same side of the Atlantic they already chose.
Read more: The Globe and Mail / The Guardian
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One in Four New Hampshire Residents May Already Be Canadian Citizens
Between 1840 and 1930, roughly 900,000 French Canadians left Quebec for New England's mill towns. Many landed in New Hampshire. By 1910, 38% of Manchester's population was French-Canadian. Their descendants, now four or five generations removed from those textile factories, can all apply for a Canadian passport today.
That's the implication of Bill C-3, which took effect December 15 and removed the generational limit on inheriting Canadian citizenship. Anyone born before that date who can trace a single Canadian ancestor - no matter how many generations back - is legally recognized as a Canadian citizen by descent. CIC News ran an analysis this weekend showing that New Hampshire, with an estimated 25-30% Canadian ancestry, sits near the top of the eligibility list, neck-and-neck with Vermont.
Applications for citizenship certificates (the proof-of-citizenship step that comes before a passport) have been running about 10 months to process, based on current volumes. Quebec's national archive, the BAnQ, has digitized many of the Catholic Church baptismal and marriage records that applicants need to prove their lineage.
The mill towns have been empty for decades, but the family trees they planted are still bearing fruit.
Read more: CIC News