Honorary Canadian citizenship

Honorary Canadian citizenship
Awarded by Parliament of Canada
Type	Honorary citizenship
Established	1985
Country	Canada
Statistics
First induction	1985
Total inductees	7

Honorary Canadian citizenship (French: citoyenneté canadienne honoraire) is an honour bestowed on foreigners of exceptional merit following a joint resolution by both Houses of the Parliament of Canada.

Honorary Canadian citizenship is purely symbolic; the recipient does not receive any of the rights, privileges, or duties typically held by a Canadian citizen.^[1]

  Honorary Canadian citizenship revoked by parliamentary vote

#	Name	Image	Award date	Country	Notes
1	Raoul Wallenberg		1985 (posthumous)	Sweden	Diplomat and humanitarian. Posthumous recipient of the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal, and second honorary citizen of the United States.[2][3]
2	Nelson Mandela		2001	South Africa	Anti-apartheid activist, first post-apartheid President of South Africa, and recipient of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.[4]
3	Tenzin Gyatso		2006	India (born in  Tibet)	The 14th Dalai Lama and recipient of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize.[5]
4	Aung San Suu Kyi		2007	Myanmar	Opposition leader and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.[6] Revoked by parliamentary vote in 2018 in response to the Rohingya genocide.[7]
5	Karim Aga Khan IV		2010	United Kingdom	49th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. Honorary Companion of the Order of Canada.[8][9]
6	Malala Yousafzai		2014[10][a]	Pakistan	Women's rights and education activist, and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.[12]
7	Vladimir Kara-Murza		2023	United Kingdom (born in  Russia)	Political activist, journalist, author, filmmaker.[13]

Canadian civil society groups and other protestors called for the revocation of Aung San Suu Kyi's honorary citizenship in response to UN allegations that the 2017 persecution by the Burmese military against the Rohingya, an ethno-religious minority group in Burma, was a form of ethnic cleansing.^[14][15] This included an online Change.org petition addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the House of Commons of Canada.^[16] The House of Commons voted unanimously on September 27, 2018, to revoke her honorary citizenship.^[17] The Senate of Canada approved a motion to the same effect unanimously on October 2, 2018.^[7] With revocation motions passed by both houses, the Government of Canada stated that it recognized Parliament's decision to revoke the honour.^[7]

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