Dear Editor,
Re: “Petition filed as non-resident births rise at Richmond Hospital,” News, July 6.
Despite immigration lawyer Richard Kurland’s ludicrous “naughty student” comparison, there is something very wrong with the jus soli (right of the soil) law relating to non-resident births in Canada.
A country that confers citizenship based on the contractions timing of a pregnant foreign national is not a sovereign state — it’s a hotel.
It’s patently insane that the child of alien parents in Richmond Hospital is, 18 years later, automatically entitled to vote Liberal. Birth tourism in “Hotel Canada” is not a “transaction cost of democracy,” as Mr. Kurland would have it. It’s another instance of the lunacy of the open borders left.
Gary McGregor
Delta
