Immigration Minister Marc Miller is giving 'lost Canadians' a chance to receive Canadian citizenship.
Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller listens to a reporter's question during a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. Miller is allowing so-called"lost Canadians" a chance to receive Canadian citizenship. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
In 2009, the Conservative federal government changed the law so that Canadians who were born abroad could not pass down their citizenship unless their child was born in Canada. In a media statement, Miller said the government applied to the court for a 12-month extension to the current March 19 deadline.
That three-year rule was part of the “lost Canadians” legislation that died on the order paper when Parliament was prorogued in January. It was meant to create a consistent citizenship mechanism for people born abroad beyond the first generation. “There is nothing to allow me to evaluate how effective the expanded interim measures will be in attenuating the impact of the ongoing rights violations that the respondent proposes.”
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