As the federal government seeks to amend the Citizenship Act, Conservative MPs have made an unsuccessful attempt to limit birthright citizenship, saying a decade of “misguided” policy has broken the consensus on immigration.
The House of Commons is currently reviewing Bill C-3, which aims, among other things, to ensure citizenship by descent is granted to anyone born outside Canada to a parent with citizenship. This would also extend after the first generation if the parent had a “substantial connection” to Canada before the child’s birth, defined as having spent 1,095 cumulative days in Canada.
