EXCLUSIVE: How Canada Stripped 3,100 Citizens in Massive Fraud Crackdown

For decades, it was almost unheard of.

Between 1977 and 2010, just 63 people lost their Canadian citizenship.

Then everything changed.

In July 2011, then-Minister Jason Kenney dropped a bombshell.

Up to 1,800 Canadians could be stripped of their citizenship.

The reason? Fraud.

A three-year investigation by the RCMP, other police forces and Citizenship and Immigration Canada had uncovered a massive scheme.

The numbers kept growing.

By September 2012, Kenney announced the total had skyrocketed to 3,100.

Another 11,000 people were still under investigation.

The crackdown had begun.

The Legal Weapon

The government’s power comes from Section 10 of the Citizenship Act.

This provision allows Ottawa to strip citizenship from anyone who obtained it through fraud or misrepresentation.

It’s the ultimate punishment – removing the very right to call yourself Canadian.

The Slowdown

But then came the lawsuits.

Federal Court challenges and a change in government slowed the purge dramatically.

The numbers tell the story.

In 2021, just seven people lost their citizenship.

In 2022, that number rose slightly to twenty-five.

The massive wave Kenney promised never fully materialized.

Yet the threat remains.

The government continues to investigate and revoke citizenship every year.

For those who obtained their status fraudulently, the clock is still ticking.

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