There are maybe just a couple of points I would like to make. That's one perspective on the issue, certainly. Those are concerns we are aware of at CIC.
The other thing to be aware of is that the law does provide for equal treatment, but it's an issue of who the comparator groups are. Currently the Citizenship Act looks at the comparator groups, as I was trying to explain earlier, perhaps not very clearly, in terms of treating those who were born in Canada and those who are naturalized in Canada equally, as far as their ability to pass on citizenship goes. If their future children are born abroad, they are citizens. The law also treats equally those who are born to Canadians abroad and those who are adopted abroad, who go through the direct route to citizenship.
Something else to be aware of is that adoptive parents, in many cases, have an option open to them, which Canadians living abroad do not. For Canadians living abroad, if the Canadian is born or naturalized in Canada, their child is born abroad as a citizen, and they're impacted by the first-generation limit. A parent living in Canada who's adopting internationally can choose either to apply to bring the child in as a permanent resident of Canada--so if the child is being naturalized through that route, the child would be able to pass on their citizenship--or to bring them through the direct route to citizenship, in which case they're impacted by the first-generation limit. That's not an option that's available to the parents whose children are born to them abroad, because they're citizens from birth, but they're impacted by the first-generation limit.
I'm not sure if that's a little bit clearer, but hopefully it provides a broader picture.