Thank you for the question.
To give an example, suppose you have a couple of siblings who have fled to Canada as refugees, and one of them is slightly older than the other. They are unaccompanied minors. They are recognized as refugees in Canada. They apply for permanent residence as they are able to.
The older one who is over 18, after they meet all of the requirements in the law, can apply for citizenship, but the one that is younger is barred from applying for citizenship because the laws for a grant of citizenship requires that you be over 18, or that you are accompanying your parent who is a citizen or applying for citizenship.
The minor who may have lived.... In some cases you have people who have lived pretty much all of their childhood in Canada, but they don't have that parent under whose umbrella they can apply for citizenship. At present the only option is to ask for a humanitarian exemption, but how you do that, and whether somebody will do that on their behalf, or they themselves will find out how to do it, is not at all clear. We feel there's a fairly serious discrimination against youth.