B.C. MP Jenny Kwan tells feds to help Erin Brooks surf for Canada

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VANCOUVER — Member of Parliament Jenny Kwan is asking on the federal authorities to assist surfer Erin Brooks compete for Canada in subsequent summer season’s Olympic Video games.

The NDP critic for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship has requested Minister Marc Miller to step in and grant Brooks citizenship.

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Kwan accuses the Conservative opposition in Ottawa of stalling an modification to the Citizenship Act, Invoice S-245, that restores citizenship rights for second-generation folks born overseas. Invoice C-37 in 2009 ended these rights.

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Brooks was born in Texas and grew up in Hawaii. Her Canadian ties are by her American-born father Jeff, who’s a twin American-Canadian citizen, and her grandfather born in Montreal.

The 16-year-old Brooks has competed beneath Canada’s flag and received a silver medal at this yr’s World Browsing Video games. She’s additionally the reigning world junior girls’s champion.

Her bid for Canadian citizenship was lately denied, which made her ineligible to surf for Canada on the latest Pan American Video games and in addition makes her ineligible to defend her world junior title subsequent week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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