According to the report given to the previous CIC’s Minister Mr. Jason Kenny, Annually %0.14 or less than 500 child births in Canada belongs to children whom their parents are not Canadian citizen or permanent residence.
Canada and United States are the two countries who offer citizenship to these children. From 1947 up to now, all people who have been here through a temporary situation like studying or business trip, and during this period of time have had a baby in Canada; the Child would become Canadian automatically and after the age of 18 could be eligible to support their parent for Canadian permanent residency.
CIC are trying to investigate more precisely in order to make some changes in this law and provide barriers for those who want to apply through this program. It is because CIC believes some of parents just in order to receive Canadian citizenship, come here to birth their children, since after not only the child would receive the advantages of Citizenship but also they will receive permanent residency in the future for. Considering the fact that this was in the list of changes to Citizenship law when was offering to parliament but remained unattached due to need of more investigation.
If CIC would change or make some barriers to this law, then it should consider these children citizen of nowhere up until their parent could provide their own country citizenship for them. And in some cases the parents due to citizenship regulation of their own country may not be able provide citizenship for their children and finally the child would remained stateless. On the other hand, according to signed agreement between Canada and Confederation of International Organization in 1961, government of Canada should reduce the amount of stateless people in its country and are promised to award citizenship to children who are birth in Canada.
Another critic to this issue relies on the a few numbers of such births in Canada and any kind of hardship policies would affect students, or other workers and professionals who will have a baby during their residence in Canada.
