"Kat Lanteigne, whose adopted son was born in Zambia, said a new requirement that a Canadian child born abroad demonstrate a substantial connection to Canada treats adopted children like immigrants. It doesn't treat our son like the Canadian citizen that he is, she said. In 2009, changes were made to Canada's citizenship laws that stopped the automatic transmission of citizenship by descent to foreign-born children if both of their Canadian parents were also born in a foreign country."
"We adopted our child from another country, but we actually adopted our child in the province of Ontario and in the country of Canada, she said. He doesn't know any other nation except for his life in Canada. Although elements of the bill have not yet been passed into law, Lanteigne says if her son were to move abroad and have children, he would, in theory, have to prove his substantial connection to Canada in order to pass citizenship on to any children."
The federal government is overhauling the Citizenship Act to allow Canadians born abroad to pass citizenship to further foreign-born generations and to restore descendants excluded under older laws. The proposed bill would require foreign-born Canadian children to demonstrate a substantial connection to Canada to transmit citizenship to their own children. Adoptive parents say the connection test treats international adoptees like immigrants and discriminates against children adopted in Canada who have only known life in Canada. An Ontario court struck down a 2009 rule restricting transmission by descent, and officials estimate up to 2,000 children could be affected by the new wording.
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