22 Daiva Stasiulis supporting a legal and now administrative process to win back his citizenship.26 Despite severe limitations on his geographic mobility imposed by CBSA, Budlakoti has himself been an activist – raising funds and awareness of his situation through a speaking tour in several Canadian cities. He has also supported other causes within his experience, such as the inhumane conditions of prisoners in criminal detention. Budlakoti has clearly galvanized and created several new networks as justice-minded lawyers and university students have been working on different files governing his status. Impressively, it was the awareness of his experience through one of his speaking engagements in Toronto that led to the founding in 2014 of the new advocacy-focused Canadian Centre on Statelessness (n.d.). 27 Despite the enrollment of the governmental networks in effecting a legal erasure and reduction to “bare life,” Budlakoti has clearly refused banishment from Canadian society and the status of homo sacer (Agamben, 1995). Currently, under a new Liberal government that has made it clear that “a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian,”28 there is some hope though no guarantee of reinstatement of Budlakoti’s birthright citizenship. An important question posed by his case is what happens when individuals fall between the cracks in the transition between two citizenship regimes. The Trudeau government’s Bill C-6, which amends the Citizenship Act, contains a provision that would restore the citizenship of any convicted terrorists who lost it as a result of changes brought in by the previous Conservative government (Bell, 2016). In addition, the current Citizenship Minister has promised not to take any further action against nine terrorists who had received notices informing them their citizenship was being revoked (Bell, 2016). This suggests an openness in the current government to a solution supporting restitution of Budlakoti’s human right to his birthright citizenship rather than permitting the punitive ethos of the prior Conservative government to govern the final disposition of his legal identity. More broadly, this extraordinary case of statelessness exposes how the strengthening of Canadian citizenship requires that it become more difficult rather than easier to lose. 26 See www.justicefordeepan.org/, Budlakoti’s latest effort to build support for his case involves showing a 15-minute documentary, “Stateless” directed by Amar Wala, about his case to audiences in various Canadian cities. As of writing, Budlakoti’s lawyers are preparing a Citizenship Application to the Minister (of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship). 27 See also www.statelessness.ca/about-us.html. 28 This was a slogan repeatedly used by current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the 2015 federal election campaign. Studies in Social Justice, Volume 11, Issue 1, 1-26, 2017