Mr. Speaker, it is quite accepted internationally that children have the citizenship of their parents and that when the parents make application for Canadian citizenship they include their children in that application.
What happens in this country often is that the parents assume their children automatically are covered under their citizenship application. The children find out when they are adults and want a passport or something that their parents had not made that application for them. They find out they are not Canadian citizens when they thought they were.
We owe it to the children in Canada whose parents were not born here and are now Canadian citizens to make sure they understand that they need to check to make sure they are Canadian citizens and not just expect it was done for them by their parents.