Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for the invitation to appear before you today. I'm accompanied by Rénald Gilbert and Alain Laurencelle. Over the course of the next few minutes, l'd like to discuss the citizenship route for adoption in the context of the proposed Bill C-467.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Maybe Alain wants to jump in. What I would say is that one of the primary issues is that the way this bill is drafted, when you look at it in the context of the sections it has to hook into in the Citizenship Act, you see that the first-generation limit would continue to apply. T

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll start. Then I'll invite my colleague Alain to add anything I've left out. The bill is in fairly plain language, but the issue is that the first clause of the bill doesn't correspond to the objectives. It wouldn't enable the children born to crown servants abroad to pass on

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That is correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sorry, but was your question about the crown servant applying for their child? There would be a standard process when the parents want to apply for proof of citizenship for their child. They would have to furnish the regular documentation establishing their own citizenship, their

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think we really have any way to know, because, as I'm sure you appreciate, though there is the odd case that's drawn to the department's attention, individual family circumstances vary. We don't have any way of knowing for someone who is first generation abroad whether th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's okay. I was done.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We don't have the statistics.