Bad laws! I hope there will be no such thing as "citizenship" or "country" one day. We are all citizens of the world.
Japanese citizenship is one of the hardest to obtain and easiest to lose in the world, no doubt due to the high population on scarse land and rocky mountains....
Tran should turn Japanese just for the Olympics then return to Canada and regain his citizenship whenever he wants since it's dirty-easy to get.
Japan has just about the highest proportion of aging population, having also the highest longevity. The men have been importing brides from other Asian countries because Japanese women have been "boycotting" marriage and bearing children, a natural outcome of them catching up financially and career wise yet with the institution of mariage being a really lousy deal for women. But for now, it's still an overpopulated country and it can afford foreign labor it needs without granting citizenships. Sort of like the illegal immigrant workers in the US, providing much needed labor without many benefits of belonging. Too bad a special worker like an Olympian does need the official citizenship.
That's my point.Canada is too easy, that's the problem that everyone likes to take advantage of.
I'm sorry. If I make the law, that'd not happen. I will never let anyone to turn their back on the country, and then come back.
Canada is too easy, that's the problem that everyone likes to take advantage of.
I just don't understand these pairs thing, I mean, with a country with so many people, they can't find a partner in their own country? Didn't they know that skating with another person from another country will be a problem eventually?
I know I'm harsh, but if anyone wants to leave the country, leave, but don't come back.
I can understand your sentiment. BTW, should Paul Poirier have found his partner in CANADA, rather than teaming up with Piper Gilles? :think:
Come to think about it, I wonder if Andrew Poje might still be looking for someone like Weaver in Canada had he chose not to team up with her?
Wonder if they made different choices had both countries prohibited dual citizenship.Who was there in Canada at the appropriate level of skating to team up with Poirier or Poje at the time? The US was willing to release Gilles and Weaver since neither had medaled internationally.
Since Canada and the US both allow dual citizenship, no one had to give up anything.
From what I understand, it takes a LONG time to get Japanese citizenship. Tran would have to live in Japan for many years, which would mean leaving their current coaching situation and I doubt that Japan has many coaches who are expert at pairs skating. He probably couldn't expect to become a Japanese citizen until long after Sochi, so what would be the point?
2018 might be too close as well. Tran must live in Japan for the requisite time, and he needs to be able not only to speak Japanese fluently but to WRITE skillfully in Japanese. I'm not sure he would be able to do that within 6 years while also continuing his pairs training.