OTTAWA — The prime minister’s office announced on Thursday that former Conservative MP and Harper spokesman Dean Del Mastro, who had just been sentenced to a month in jail for violating the Canada Elections Act, would be stripped of his citizenship the moment another country agreed to take him off Canada’s hands.
“Bill C-24 has made it possible for us to crack down on partially Canadian criminals,” Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander explained. “Mr. Del Mastro’s wrongdoings have so little to do with this government that we doubt he’s even Canadian.”
Asked where Del Mastro might go, Alexander appeared unconcerned.
“We’ve hired fixers and planes to deport refugee claimants to Africa before, so how different would it be to give a former party bigwig one last flight on a private jet?” Alexander asked.
“Look at all the countries that took in Guantanamo detainees before we repatriated Omar Khadr,” he said. “So long as Del Mastro isn’t Canadian, he should have no trouble finding a new home.”
