Quote Originally Posted by Canuck of NI View Post
And titles can actually be dangerous. At one time it was commonplace for Canadians to be awarded and allowed to accept British titles but there was a precedent-setting series of incidents recently when Lord Conrad Black wanted his Peerage and the Canadian Prime Minister of the day refused to allow him to accept it (they were political enemies). So Black got mad and gave up his Canadian citizenship, becoming Lord Black as a Brit, but later was convicted in a US court and held for extra years in a US prison because Canada could no longer claim him to fall under treaty agreements and transfer him here, where the prisons are nicer and parole much more generous. It can't seem like the best deal Conrad ever made, especially to him.
It's worse than that for Connie. As a convicted felon and foreign citizen he is prohibited from entering Canada. There is supposedly a move afoot for the Minister of Immigration to allow him to reclaim his citizenship and come home but the Tories are worried about the backlash.