Citizenship and Immigration committee  We don't have any control over the nationality laws of other countries. They vary quite dramatically throughout the world. If someone could be a dual citizen and then in another country—and this has happened in Canada, actually, whereby people have become stateless because of the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We know that some people are dual citizens who don't even know that. Because of the laws in the country of their parents' birth, they are dual citizens. They were born in Canada, yet have no idea of the reality of their situation.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I think it's absolutely impossible. We've seen it already with just establishing or continuing your permanent residence in Canada. There's a great difficulty for some people who have had to live abroad for very good reasons—to care for relatives or because some accident happ

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think it's exactly the situation of dual citizens and naturalized citizens who are going to be facing two-tiered citizenship. It's fine to say of course we want citizens—those who are applying to be citizens—to reside in Canada, but it's not fair to treat them differently than

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wanted to explain that through the example of one of my colleagues and her family, because for refugees in particular, that time when they have no human dignity, when they have been reduced, is a very crucial period. It is harmful to Canada, and it is also contrary to our oblig

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, because we're not just worried about the time. We're worried about the failure to reasonably deal with the potential exemptions especially by expanding the groups of people who are caught by the language and knowledge of Canada criteria. It's not going to be any problem for

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Good afternoon and thank you for this opportunity to speak with the committee about the proposed changes to the citizenship law in Canada. Our eight recommendations are set out in our written brief and summarized on the second page of the brief. We have extras if you