Conrad Black says he has regained his Canadian citizenship, more than 20 years after he renounced it following a well\u002Dpublicized fight with then\u002Dprime minister…
The Montreal-born Black was deported to Canada and later granted a pardon by then-president Donald Trump, who he has called a friend and about whom he wrote a glowing biography. Under U.S. law, a pardon represents full legal forgiveness for a crime, and Black has maintained he was a victim of an unfair criminal justice system.A spokesperson for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Sean Fraser says the department does not comment on specific cases, citing privacy legislation.
Black’s 1999 invitation to the British House of Lords pitted him in an unsuccessful legal battle with Chretien. The prime minister moved to block it, telling Queen Elizabeth II the government’s position was that a Canadian should not be made a lord, citing a non-binding 1919 resolution. Black, a dual Canadian-British citizen, alleged the move was payback for his past criticism and noted other Canadians had been knighted without issue.
“By this time, I was more concerned with thwarting Chretien’s preposterous claims to extraterritoriality and the cowardice of the Canadian judiciary than I was with becoming a British baron, and it was in those circumstances that I renounced my Canadian citizenship, with the implacable stated intention to resume my Canadian citizenship as soon as I could,” he writes in the op-ed.Article content
Black renounced Canadian citizenship in 2001 and assumed the British peerage as Lord Black of Crossharbour, which according to a photo supplied to the National Post appears to be the surname printed on his new Canadian passport. In the op-ed, he claims the Canadian courts overseeing his dispute with Chretien acted with “contemptible pusillanimity,” and the former prime minister himself acted “maliciously”. Yet in closing the piece, he says he made no issue of the queen bestowing Chretien the Order of Merit, which he claims in a parenthetical note violated the same 1919 resolution.This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 28, 2023.
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Conrad Black says he’s regained the Canadian citizenship he renounced in 2001Black says he received his Canadian passport this week. He gave up his citizenship during a well-publicized fight with Jean Chretien in 2001
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Conrad Black says he's regained the Canadian citizenship he renounced in 2001Conrad Black says he has regained his Canadian citizenship, more than 20 years after he renounced it following a well-publicized fight with then-prime minister Jean Chretien over accepting a British peerage.
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Conrad Black says he's regained Canadian citizenship he renounced in 2001Conrad Black says his Canadian citizenship has been restored more than 20 years after he renounced it.
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Conrad Black says he's regained Canadian citizenship he renounced in 2001Conrad Black says his Canadian citizenship has been restored more than 20 years after he renounced it.
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