To enter Canada as a Canadian citizen, you need to download an app, upload paperwork into it, answer five million questions, receive six million stern warnings, and receive a QR code. None of which guarantees entry into the country of your citizenship.
Apparently, you no longer qualify as a citizen if you don't have a smartphone where the app and the documents should be uploaded.
I still remember when citizenship didn't require additional purchases, technology, and documentation. Citizenship simply was. Like biological sex. It didn't need to be questioned and re-negotiated. But now a passport is worth nothing without vaccine passports, fresh COVID tests, quarantine plans, doctor notes, and QR codes. We have sacrificed something huge for. . . what, exactly? What has been gained? How was citizenship taken away from us just like that? The younger people won't even remember how it used to be.
What have we done?
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