The proroguing of Parliament threatens to leave thousands of 'Lost Canadians' - children born abroad to foreign-born Canadians - without automatic citizenship rights. Bill C-71, aimed at addressing this issue, is unlikely to pass before the next election, increasing the risk of an unclear application of citizenship law.
49 individuals from 27 different countries participated today at the Canadian citizenship oath taking ceremony on May 23, 2024 at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto.Ottawa’s failure to pass a bill granting citizenship to Lost Canadians – children born abroad to foreign-born Canadians – could lead to thousands of people whose parents have never been here automatically qualifying as citizens.
The bill is meant to reverse a change by Stephen Harper’s Conservative government in 2009 that stripped children of a Canadian parent born outside Canada of their automatic right to citizenship. As well as restoring citizenship rights, Bill C-71 also limits who can pass on citizenship to ensure that Canadians born abroad, who have spent their entire lives outside Canada, would not be able to automatically confer the right to a Canadian passport onto their children. They would have to show, under the bill, that they were physically in Canada for at least 1,095 days before their child’s birth.
“In my view, the substantial connections test outlined in the bill is a fair way to ensure that Lost Canadian families still have ties to Canada,” she said. “The failure to have this safeguard in place is on both the Liberals, who failed to take expeditious action to pass Bill C-71, and the Conservatives for putting up endless roadblocks to ensure Canada’s immigration laws are Charter compliant and that’s just shameful.
However, the bill is unlikely to have enough time to complete its remaining parliamentary stages before the next election.
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