Without trying to hold myself out as an expert on other countries' citizenship legislation, because I wouldn't want to do that or mislead this committee, I can for the committee's consideration agree with the member that the kinds of circumstances where statelessness may arise would more likely relate to a birth abroad where the country does not have citizenship by birth on soil, which tends to be less common outside of North America to begin with. It may be where the Canadian parent is already first generation born abroad and is, therefore, not able to transmit automatic citizenship, and where the other parent due to any number of circumstances, which could include the kinds of circumstances the member has described, is also not able to transmit citizenship to the child. Furthermore, none of the grandparents on either side are having a citizenship to transmit to that child. This is why the cases of statelessness tend to be more exceptional. There are some, but they tend to be more exceptional.
Just to be clear, statelessness is not really an issue where you have access to a citizenship but you don't really want to apply for it. You wouldn't necessarily be considered stateless in that situation. It's a situation where, in the circumstance I've described, the child does not have access to citizenship through descent or through birth on soil.