Talk:Honorary Canadian citizenship

Power to bestow
I don't believe that the Governor General or the Monarch have any role in bestowing honorary citizenship in Canada as this has always been an honour bestowed by Parliament. --Canadian Osprey 04:09, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The link provided as a source states: "Section 5(4) says the Governor in Council may direct the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration to grant citizenship to any person. The discretionary grant is to reward services of an exceptional value to Canada or to alleviate cases of special and unusual hardship" [italics mine]. The exact paragraph out of the Citizenship Act states: "In order to alleviate cases of special and unusual hardship or to reward services of an exceptional value to Canada, and notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Governor in Council may, in his discretion, direct the Minister to grant citizenship to any person and, where such a direction is made, the Minister shall forthwith grant citizenship to the person named in the direction" [italics mine]. Parliament has no technical part in granting citizenship, honorary or otherwise, besides debating and passing the Citizenship Act; I imagine their role in honorary citizenship is merely symbolic. Authority to grant all citizenship belongs to the Crown. --G2bambino 04:21, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Conflict with edit box
The text version made more sense as the table was (1) ugly (2) conflicted with edit box. --Lawe (talk) 18:19, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Could you be so kind as to provide proof of both claims, please? --Miesianiacal (talk) 20:36, 3 January 2009 (UTC) Never mind; I see now where the problem is. Odd that it is. --Miesianiacal (talk) 20:37, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It would however, Lawe, be of benefit to myself and other editors if you'd be more sophisticated than simply reverting all edits in order to undo one particular part; in this case it was only a minor punctuation change that you undid in the process of reverting the table, but you have before done similar things with wider ramifications. Just a friendly note to let you know. --Miesianiacal (talk) 20:45, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I cannot less this pass. On 11 December 2008, User:Will Beback converted table to text to avoid conflict with template. Your response was to revert on 3 January 2009 to restore table as you "don't see conflict w/ infobox". I am also restoring the punctuation, to be consistent with Senate of Canada, Prince Edward Island, British Columbia, Speaker_of_the_Canadian_Senate, Canadian_House_of_Commons, Elections in Canada and of course Centre_Block where you came to the opposite conclusion . I am also removing the comma as it is not correct to say A, B, or C. It is correct to say A, B or C. --Lawe (talk) 10:01, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid I've no idea what you're trying to get at, other than your final sentence, which is incorrect. Using a serial comma is perfectly acceptable. --Miesianiacal (talk) 10:15, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * So in Canada, it is optional. Fair enough. Then why revert Will Bekeck, who is North American too? Actually, I don't care. The list is fixed. --Lawe (talk) 08:28, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Will Bekeck did not remove the comma. --Miesianiacal (talk) 15:26, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh my god! That means it was... {gunshot} --Lawe (talk) 07:42, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's right, it was... not removed by Will Bekeck, which means I did not revert him. --Miesianiacal (talk) 13:15, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Title spelling
The title is incorrectly spelled, using American "Honorary" instead of correct traditional UK/ Commonwealth standard "Honourary."

Don't know how to fix this, but someone should. It's a little silly to get the name wrong.


 * No problem; it's not wrong. Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 11:49, 9 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Interestingly, Wiktionary as of now lists Canada as the ONLY country where the -our- spelling is acceptable. That said, Parliament seems to drop the U when writing about it, so we probably should too. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 21:09, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Request Adding Bollywood actor 'Akshay Kumar' in this list.
Hi, Add latest entry in Canadian Honorary citizenship list is Bollywood actor 'Akshay Kumar'.