Should foreign-born Canadians be allowed to hold elected office? 

A naturalized Canadian running for political office should not hold citizenship of another country/countries.

Thanks Darshan, Have a Happy Canada Day and keep smiling.

Quality of politicians has deteriorated all over the world. Intelligentsia should roll up their sleeves, hold their heads, and devise something better to get rid of the rotten system.

No, there's too many potential pitfalls involved. Esp given the foreign interference issue Canada has been susceptible to already.

It should even go a couple generations into the family before running for politics...

No, our politicians should be CANADIAN born and not hold passports for other countries. Canada and Canadians first!

Good video Darshan jee

It would be a great error to limit office holders to Canadian born citizens. That us not the problem. The political party system has nothing to do with democracy and is destroying our system of governance. They will put forward candidates that will hopefully win elections, not those with the best qualifications to be part of the government.

Hi Darshan. Its always a treat to listen to your analysis on these issues. Your perspective is quite unique and enlightening. What I really like about your comments is HOW you approach these issues. The process of thinking / analysis. Its critical yet not robotic. Its conceptually creative while being eloquent. How do you manage to strike such a fine balance ? Could you please recommend me some books that would help me build these skills ? Always looking forward for more videos from you. Please don't ever stop making them 😄😄

Hi @DarshanMaharaja I think that foreign born Canadian citizens should be allowed to hold public office if they have spent over 20 years in the country and do not have dual citizenship. That was raised by True North recently. It is also grand hypocrisy for liberal politicians to criticise India's CAA and then turn around and do what the minister did w.r.t Afghanistan. Live up to the example you want to set.

What he did was horrible but he also slipped in something about rescuing 'hindus' at the end while making his statement. For a khalistani who keep blaming hindus for all their problems, thats very hideous. He is a crook too who doesnt say what he means/meant

It is good presentation, it focuses a lot on examples about questionable loyalties of many politicians and that loyalty is indeed viewed very differently according to one's value system that may be opposed or closed to who the politician is. This is short on what is meant to fixing the process of bringing in good politicians and that may well warrant other discussions but those tend to be a bit abstract or difficult to change: role of party discipline, genuine opposition during office, transparency of government and accountability, representation at local level versus having some representation with a list by party according to total popular vote. Local representation may exacerbate tribal effect whereas broad based representation could potentially give more representation to aboriginal people for example assuming they would want to form a national political party. Stated differently some ethnic or cultural groups may concentrate more in well defined areas whereas others may disseminate far more evenly across the country.

No only Canadian born should have rights

Take any immigrant/refugee who has been in Canada 25+ years and owns a successful small to medium size business, put this person in gov't and they will bring more common sense and proper leadership than most Canadian born politicians in power today. Yes, immigrants should be allowed to hold elected office. As you stated, it's the process that needs to be fixed.

It's very interesting! I think I agree with you on this one, and you really thought in clear, straight lines here. I wonder if you read Andrew Lawton's biography of Pierre Poilievre. It just came out. If you read it, I'd love to hear your analysis of it. I want to know what to make of our next Prime Minister!

I say 3rd generation born is allowed that's when you know that they are truly for that country and don't really have out side influence

According to Elections Canada, you only have to be a Canadian citizen to run for an elected position. Four of Canada's prime ministers have been born outside Canada: John A. Macdonald (born Glasgow), Alexander Mackenzie (born Scotland), Mackenzie Bowell (born England), and John Turner born UK). I would just like them to be scrutinized more prior to running. I don't know why this has become an issue except for those trying to destroy our country.

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Thank you Darshan. 😊

Does India allow forwign people in their govt? Are foreign people allowed to build homes and make profit?

Canada should keep an open mind and allow Foreign born Canadians to run for elected office. However, that doesn't mean Canadians should stop being vigilant. Foreign born Canadians can be just as incompetent, self serving and ideological as Justin Trudeau.

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No

Canada should keep an open mind and allow Foreign born Canadians to run for elected office. However, that doesn't mean Canadians should stop being vigilant. Foreign born Canadians can be just as incompetent, self serving and ideological as Justin Trudeau.