The process would normally start where the parent resides in Canada. The province would do the first review. The Canadian citizen parent would apply for a grant of citizenship for this individual. If we had concerns that there was an adoption of convenience—for instance, that the purpose of coming into Canada was to circumvent the immigration or citizenship rules, or even the rules around security or criminality in the context of citizenship—the application could theoretically be refused. But barring that scenario, there would not be a mechanism for us to refuse the granting of citizenship to this kind of individual.
Again, the purpose here is to eliminate the distinction between those children born to a Canadian citizen overseas and those adopted by a Canadian citizen overseas. The goal is to reduce that distinction as much as possible.