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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you can get a Canadian birth certificate for a grandparent you can get citizenship under this law. The 3 year thing is only for births after November 2025.

There's also a possibility through great grandparents and further. I did it through a great grandparent last summer and have heard rumors of it further out, but I would not bet on it too much if it's further than grandparent.

Check out r/canadiancitizenship if you're curious.[/quote]

It goes back further than than great grandparents. But this is off topic. If you want to talk about out how to get citizenship start your own thread. This is about political motivations and implications of the law given the timing, who profits, influence on politics, etc. [/quote]

What about them? What do you think is the motivation? I couldn't really find anything beyond the facts of who qualifies. I could see trying to right wrongs over the Great Upheaval but that was so long ago it could be tough to document. I did read over 500k Americans could qualify but I'm not sure what that does politically as it'd be a mix of people in terms of political backgrounds.[/quote]Per my daughter, there were a couple more modern motivations: 1) The Court had found that women had been treated unfairly under British/Canadian law.  When men married non-British/Canadians, they kept their citizenship, women lost theirs.  And, of course, the men's descendants could claim citizenship by descent for permitted generations, but none of the women's could. And 2), there had been kids born overseas to British/Canadians who had ended up stateless as Canadian descent law interacted with the other countries' laws.

As far as timing, original Court finding was in the late 2000s.  The political branch messed around with alternatives for years.  Got to the point the Courts were going to simply impose an answer unless the political branch came up with something acceptable.[/quote]

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