US Edition‘Lost Canadians’ bill tabled after judge sets November deadline for passage
- In 2025, Citizenship Minister Lena Diab presented new legislation aimed at restoring citizenship rights to children born outside Canada to Canadian parents who were themselves born abroad.
- The bill responds to a 2009 change by the Conservative government that removed automatic citizenship for second-generation Canadians born abroad, which the Ontario Superior Court ruled unconstitutional in December 2023.
- Bill C-3 requires parents to have spent at least 1,095 cumulative days in Canada before their child's birth to pass citizenship, aiming to correct harms caused by the 2009 law's restrictions.
- Parliamentary Budget Officer estimates the bill could restore citizenship to around 115,000 new citizens in five years, while lawyer Sujit Choudhry emphasized the legislation must be prioritized and passed by November 20, 2025.
- The November deadline follows multiple court extensions and criticism over legislative delays, implying the government must act quickly to uphold citizenship rights of so-called Lost Canadians.
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'Lost Canadians' bill tabled after judge sets November deadline for passage
OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Lena Diab tabled legislation Thursday to restore citizenship to “Lost Canadians” after a court found the existing law unconstitutional. The term “Lost Canadians” refers to people who were born outside of the country to Canadian parents who were also born in another country. In 2009, the Conservative federal government of the […]
Carney government reintroduces 'lost Canadians' citizenship bill
Bill C-3, introduced by new Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab on Thursday, would reverse a change made by former prime minister Stephen Harper that disallowed Canadians born abroad from passing citizenship to their children unless they were born in Canada.
OTTAWA—On Thursday, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Lena Diab, introduced a bill to re-establish the citizenship of "lost Canadians" after a court found the existing legislation unconstitutional. The term "lost Canadians" refers to persons born abroad to Canadian parents who were born abroad. In 2009, the then Conservative federal government amended the Act so that Canadians born abroad could only pass on their citizenship…
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