I've looked into the 'leaving the birthplace blank' option for Canadian passports. It's a sham.
While the Canadian charter dictates that no one, including permanent residents, may be discriminated against due to national origin (or residence), leaving it blank causes untold headaches when flying internationally. It raises suspicion because that is the ONLY blank thing on the entire passport. The part that says 'place of birth' is still there. So like the anti-male prostitution law (protects the woman, punishes the man), Canada once again has made a bad situation worse.
The guy at the passport office also told me that you cannot use a town in your new country with the same name as the old. So say you were born in Bunkie, Louisiana, and there just so happens to be a town called Bunkie in Alberta. So you think, hey I'll just put that in there and howdy Joe everything is fine.
It won't fly since you have to lie on your passport application. A big no-no in Canada.
FATCA should be the first thing Trump repeals since at it's core it is taxation *without* representation, and I encourage anyone to fight it tooth and nail. Do not 'register' for anything related to FATCA because at that point you will be marked for life the same as any shop owner who gets a visit from Tony for his monthly 'protection' money. Better to hide from the Mafia than live under their boot.
While the Canadian charter dictates that no one, including permanent residents, may be discriminated against due to national origin (or residence), leaving it blank causes untold headaches when flying internationally. It raises suspicion because that is the ONLY blank thing on the entire passport. The part that says 'place of birth' is still there. So like the anti-male prostitution law (protects the woman, punishes the man), Canada once again has made a bad situation worse.
The guy at the passport office also told me that you cannot use a town in your new country with the same name as the old. So say you were born in Bunkie, Louisiana, and there just so happens to be a town called Bunkie in Alberta. So you think, hey I'll just put that in there and howdy Joe everything is fine.
It won't fly since you have to lie on your passport application. A big no-no in Canada.
FATCA should be the first thing Trump repeals since at it's core it is taxation *without* representation, and I encourage anyone to fight it tooth and nail. Do not 'register' for anything related to FATCA because at that point you will be marked for life the same as any shop owner who gets a visit from Tony for his monthly 'protection' money. Better to hide from the Mafia than live under their boot.