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Citizenship and Immigration committee I believe in your example we're down to your great-grandchild.
June 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Rick Stewart
Citizenship and Immigration committee So the short answer is indeed yes. The process of your grandchild being sponsored and naturalized in Canada will effectively deem them to have been the equivalent of born in Canada, so they will then be able to pass on to their offspring citizenship by descent if their offspring
June 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Rick Stewart
Citizenship and Immigration committee In a nutshell, honorary citizenship is a parliamentary privilege that is conferred by the House. It does not fall under the auspices of the Citizenship Act and it does not confer any of the rights, benefits, and privileges of formal citizenship under the act.
June 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Rick Stewart
June 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Rick Stewart
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, your grandchild will effectively have been naturalized.
June 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Rick Stewart
Citizenship and Immigration committee I think I can assure the members of this committee that all good public servants are politically blind. When we do assessments on where to do advertising, what we're looking for is reach. We want to know where to place our limited advertising dollars in order to have the maximum
June 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Rick Stewart
Citizenship and Immigration committee It's a small handful. It's fewer than half a dozen people, I believe.
June 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Rick Stewart
Citizenship and Immigration committee Which bill are you referring to? The one on adoption or Bill C-37?
June 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Rick Stewart
Citizenship and Immigration committee We do not want to force families to make a choice. In Bill C-14, the changes made to adoption rules sought to establish equivalency between individuals adopted abroad and those born abroad. In the past, individuals in these two groups were treated differently. In Bill C-37, the d
June 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Rick Stewart
Citizenship and Immigration committee That was one of the fundamental issues in discussions about restricting citizenship to the first generation. The decision was made, and it is up to us to enforce the law that was passed.
June 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Rick Stewart
Citizenship and Immigration committee I have just perhaps one additional piece of detail, to answer the question about our communications strategy. For example, Andrew spoke previously about reaching out to major U.S. media outlets. Examples of the outlets that we did put advertising in or that took advertising for u
June 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Rick Stewart
Citizenship and Immigration committee With all due respect, I think you're asking a question of future policy direction and policy intent, and hopefully you can appreciate that we're not in a position today to be judging policy appropriateness, policy intent, policy changes for the future. I think that's more appropr
June 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Rick Stewart
Citizenship and Immigration committee Okay, there are five questions. On the last question, I'm not sure I have the evidence base to present to you today to answer that question. I apologize.
June 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Rick Stewart
Citizenship and Immigration committee I would just note that we do have copies and CDs of the YouTube video. For those of you who have not seen it, we'll be happy to share them with you after this meeting.
June 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Rick Stewart
Citizenship and Immigration committee I'm going to turn to my colleague to talk about the practice of other countries in terms of limits on citizenship by descent and the communication strategy. This is with respect to your question about the provisions to meet the increased demand for proof applications that might e
June 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Rick Stewart