Bill restoring citizenship for 'Lost Canadians' clears Senate, will become law
Posted on: Nov 21, 2025 00:07 IST | Posted by: Cbc
The " missed Canadians" statute law, which aims to set Canada's unconstitutional citizenship by line of descent rules, passed in the Senate wed and is on track to become law.
The term refers to people who were born outside of the country to Canadian parents who were also born in another country.
In 2009, the federal government changed the law so that Canadians born abroad could only pass down their citizenship if their child was born in Canada, but that was deemed unconstitutional by the Ontario Superior Court in December 2023.
The legislation proposes Canadian citizenship could be passed down to people born abroad, beyond the first generation, if the parents spent a cumulative three years in Canada before the child's birth or adoption.
Saskatchewan Sen. David Arnot argued the bill does not apply to "intercountry adoptees," international children adopted by Canadian parents and raised in Canada. If those adoptees have children of their own born outside Canada, they would not be Canadian citizens.
Arnot did not try to amend the bill because the court has set a deadline for the law to be enacted by Jan. 20, but he urged the immigration minister to make the change in the future.
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