Tag Archives: Citizenship

On Citizenship and Identity

[Note: This article first appeared at The Mark, Canada's daily online forum for news and opinion.] The big news in the expatriate community is a recent change to the Citizenship Act under which children born to Canadians abroad are only entitled to citizenship if at least one of the parents was born inside Canada. In [...]

Thoughts of an Unnatural-Born Citizen

In today’s Post, Rudyard Griffiths outlines an amendment to the Citizenship Act that goes into effect tomorrow. Griffiths writes: From this point forward, any person born abroad to Canadian parents will be a Canadian only if their father or mother was born in Canada, or if one or more of their parents became a citizen [...]