As I mentioned earlier, since 2009, those impacted by the first-generation limit do not receive Canadian citizenship automatically and have had to apply for a grant.
Generally, those who obtain a grant of citizenship are able to pass on their citizenship automatically to a child they have who is born abroad. What the bill is doing instead makes those individuals automatic citizens by operation of law. They would be subject to the first-generation limit, which means that they can no longer pass on citizenship automatically to their children who are born abroad, whereas before they could. If the bill passes without amendment, they would no longer be able to.
The concern is that this could create future lost Canadians in terms of children who would be born abroad who no longer have access to that automatic citizenship through their parents.