Dear Editor:
Re: One Class Only, June 25
Your editorial is alarmingly prescient as Bill C-24 speaks of a future when, in Canada, many thousands of "citizens" will live with a very uncertain definition of what it meansto be Canadian and will, perhaps, be somewhat muted in their celebration on this particular Canada Day.
In the name of a socalled security threat from within the country, the Conservative government has greatly diminished thesignificance of the Oath of Citizenship made by millions of immigrants to this country.The oath is simple and profound and reads: I swear (or affirm) That I will be faithful And bear true allegiance To Her Majesty QueenElizabeth the Second Queen of Canada Her Heirs and Successors And that I will faithfully observe The laws of Canada And fulfil my duties as a Canadian citizen. What else can one do or one say that sets in concrete, not in sand, the unassailable fact of citizenship? What you have so eloquently said in your editorial, I will shout from the rooftop on this Canada Day, namely: "One class only."
Don Robertson
North Vancouver
