Citizenship and Immigration committee  Do you mean other than through changes to the Citizenship Act?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We make the information about the two routes available to the parents who are adopting, and I think, as was mentioned earlier, there are improvements being made to the website to ensure that the information is as obvious as possible.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You're quite right, in the sense that the citizenship grant that we currently have in place embodies or reflects those international obligations that Canada has. I mentioned four criteria in my opening remarks, including the fact that the officer who's deciding on the internati

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think most of those benefits would be tied to provincial requirements, and sometimes those are dependent on residence in the province and not so much on status.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can't really say what the provincial requirements are for health care, but....

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The advantage of the direct route would be that you'd go through one process rather than two, but it has the impact now, further to the changes in 2009 that you pointed out, that if you come as a direct grant, you wouldn't be able to pass on citizenship should your child be born

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's in the law, so the law would have to be changed.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's the law that describes the first-generation limit as applying both to the natural-born children of Canadians abroad and to adopted children who come through the direct route.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Right.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's several hundred.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's several hundred, because we do 2,000 a year.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's hard to have an accurate number, because not all of these parents come forward and apply for proof of citizenship for their child, but on an annual basis we may do 40,000 or more requests for a proof of citizenship for people who are born abroad. In some cases those are repl

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would create a reverse inequity. The type of system you are describing would disadvantage other parents living in Canada who do not adopt but whose child is born abroad, in all sorts of circumstances. For example, a child can be born when the parents are travelling. There was

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The explanation goes back to the amendments to the law that I described. These amendments were made in response to criticism from adoptive parents. Before the law was first amended in 2007, some parents were critical of the fact that they had to go through the immigration process