History of Canadian nationality law

Naturalization Act, 1914
	Long title An Act respecting British Nationality, Naturalization and Aliens ;
Citation	S.C. 1914, c. 44
Assented to	12 June 1914
Repealed by
	Canadian Nationals Act, 1921
	Status: Repealed

Immigration Act, 1910
	Long title An Act respecting Immigration ;
Citation	S.C. 1910, c. 27
Assented to	4 May 1910
	Status: Repealed

Aliens and Naturalization Act
	Long title An Act respecting Aliens and Naturalization ;
Citation	S.C. 1868, c. 66
Assented to	22 May 1868
Repealed by
	Naturalization and Aliens Act, 1881
	Status: Repealed

Since 1977, Canadian nationality (French: Nationalité canadienne) has been regulated by the Citizenship Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-29). Canada established its own nationality law in 1946 with the enactment of the Canadian Citizenship Act 1946, which took effect on 1 January 1947. It was the second nation in the British Commonwealth to establish its own nationality law; the first was the Irish Free State in 1935 (remained a Commonwealth member until 1949).

Under current Canadian law, Canada does not restrict multiple citizenship.

Imperial and federal legislation, 1868–1914

Under common law, a person born within Her Majesty's dominions became a British subject at birth. Within their respective jurisdictions, the various colonies of the British Empire passed their own laws determining how naturalization as a subject could take place, as well as what status aliens possessed. Upon passage of the British North America Act, 1867, the Parliament of Canada was given authority over "Naturalization and Aliens", by virtue of section 91(25).

The Aliens and Naturalization Act, 1868[1] was the first federal Act to be passed, and it provided that persons who had been previously naturalized in any part of the Dominion possessed the same status as anyone naturalized under that Act. In addition:[2]

Aliens could apply for naturalization after three years' residence in Canada.
Alien-born women became naturalized by marriage to a natural-born subject or to a husband naturalized under the Act.
The laws in Nova Scotia and the former Province of Canada that allowed aliens to hold property were kept in force.

The 1868 Act was replaced by the Naturalization and Aliens Act, 1881,[3] which came into force on 4 July 1883. It made the rules allowing aliens to hold property uniform throughout the Dominion, and otherwise standardized the law along the same lines as the Naturalization Act 1870 of the United Kingdom.[4]

Canadian citizens and Canadian nationals, 1910–1947

The status of "Canadian citizen" was first created under the Immigration Act, 1910,[5] which included anyone who was:

a person born in Canada who had not become an alien;
a British subject possessing Canadian domicile; and
a person naturalized under the laws of Canada who had not subsequently become an alien or lost Canadian domicile.

Aliens, as well as all other British subjects, who wished to immigrate to Canada required permission to land. "Domicile" was declared to have been acquired by a person having his domicile in Canada for three years after having been landed therein, excluding any time spent in "any penitentiary, jail, reformatory, prison, or asylum for the insane in Canada."[5]

Although the terms "Canadian citizen" and indeed "Canadian citizenship" were used in this Act, they did not create the legal status of Canadian citizen in a nationality sense. People who had the status of "Canadian citizen" were merely free from immigration controls.[6]

The status of all British subjects in the Empire (whether by birth or naturalization) was standardized by the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914,[7] which was adopted in Canada by the Naturalization Act, 1914.[8] As a result, the period of residence required to qualify for naturalization was increased from three years to five years.

Canadian Nationals Act, 1921
Long title An Act to define Canadian Nationals and to provide for the Renunciation of Canadian Nationality
Citation	S.C. 1921, c. 4
Assented to	3 May 1921
Status: Repealed

A separate status of "Canadian national" was created under the Canadian Nationals Act, 1921,[9] which was defined as being any British subject who was a Canadian citizen as defined above, the wife of any such citizen, and any person born outside Canada whose father was a Canadian national at the time of that person's birth.

After the passage of the Statute of Westminster in 1931, whereby each self-governing dominion of the British Empire was henceforth considered equal in status to all the others, with the Crown becoming one that is shared and operating independently in each realm rather than as a unitary British Crown under which all the dominions were subordinate, the monarchy thus ceased to be an exclusively British institution. Because of this Canadians, and others living in countries that became known as Commonwealth realms, were known as subjects of the Crown. However in legal documents the term "British subject" continued to be used.

Prior to 1947, Canada issued two types of passports:[10]

those to British subjects by birth (coloured blue), and
those to naturalized British subjects or citizens (coloured red).

Eligibility of married women

There were complex rules for determining whether married women qualified as British subjects. Until 14 January 1932, the rule was that the wife of a British subject was deemed to be a British subject as well, and the wife of an alien was deemed to be an alien. After that date, and until 31 December 1946, the rules were generally as follows:[11]

At time of marriage:
- If husband was a British subject → then wife automatically became a British subject on marriage.
- If husband was an alien → then wife only ceased to be a British subject if she automatically acquired her husband's alien nationality upon marriage.
During the marriage:
- If husband naturalized as a British subject → then wife must apply to become a British subject and obtain a Series H certificate.
- If husband naturalized in a foreign country → then wife's status changed only if she was automatically included in her husband's alien naturalization. However, she could apply to retain British subject status and be issued a Series I certificate.

World War II-Era War Brides

By marrying a Canadian soldier, a woman, if not already British, acquired the status of British subject and Canadian national. If she then landed in Canada, she became a British subject of Canadian domicile.

In addition, Order in Council P.C. 7318 of 21 September 1944 stated:

2. Every dependent applying for admission to Canada shall be permitted to enter Canada and upon such admission be deemed to have landed within the meaning of the said Act; and where the member of the Canadian Armed Forces is either a Canadian citizen or has Canadian domicile, the dependent shall, upon being landed, be deemed to have acquired the same status for the purposes of the said Act.[12]

This was later replaced by P.C. 858 of February 9, 1945, which declared:

2. Every dependent applying for admission to Canada shall be permitted to enter Canada and upon such admission shall be deemed to have landed within the meaning of Canadian immigration law.

3. Every dependent who is permitted to enter Canada pursuant to section two of this Order shall for the purpose of Canadian immigration law be deemed to be a Canadian citizen if the member of the forces upon whom he is dependent is a Canadian citizen and shall be deemed to have Canadian domicile if the said member has Canadian domicile.[13]

On May 15, 1947, P.C. 858 was replaced with an amendment to the Immigration Act, which provided that, subject to medical examination, war brides and children of Canadian servicemen, who were still in Europe, were automatically entitled to admission and landing in Canada.[14]

Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946

First Canadian Citizenship ceremony on January 3, 1947 in Ottawa.

Canadian citizenship, as a status separate from British nationality, was created by the Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946 (popularly known as the 1947 Act), which came into effect on 1 January 1947. Canadian citizenship was generally conferred immediately on the following persons:[15]

a British subject who was born in Canada (and had not become an alien before 1947)
a person other than a natural-born Canadian citizen:
- who was granted, or whose name was included in, a certificate of naturalization under any act of the Parliament of Canada and had not become an alien at the commencement of the Act, or
- who was a British subject who had acquired Canadian domicile (i.e. five years' residence in Canada as a landed immigrant) before 1947
a British subject who lived in Canada for 20 years immediately before 1947 and was not, on 1 January 1947, under order of deportation
women who were married to a Canadian before 1947 and who entered Canada as a landed immigrant before 1947
children born outside Canada to a Canadian father (or mother, if born out of wedlock) before 1947

In the latter two cases, a "Canadian" was a British subject who would have been considered a Canadian citizen if the 1947 Act had come into force immediately before the marriage or birth (as the case may be). Where the child born outside Canada was not a minor (i.e. was not under 21 years in age) at the time the Act came into force, proof of landed immigrant status was required to confirm Canadian citizenship.

Acquisition and loss of citizenship

In addition to those people who became Canadian citizens upon the coming into force of the Act, citizenship afterwards was generally acquired as follows:

birth in Canada
naturalization in Canada after five years' residence as a landed immigrant
grant of citizenship to a foreign woman married to a Canadian man after one year's residence as a landed immigrant
grant of citizenship to women who lost British subject status prior to 1947 upon marriage to a foreign man or his subsequent naturalization
registration of a child born outside Canada to a Canadian "responsible parent" (being the father, if the child was born in wedlock, or the mother, if the child was born out of wedlock and was residing with the mother, if the father was deceased or if custody of the child had been awarded to the mother by court order)

Loss of Canadian citizenship generally occurred in the following cases:

naturalization outside Canada
in the case of a minor, naturalization of a parent
service in foreign armed forces
naturalized Canadians who lived outside Canada for 10 years and did not file a declaration of retention
where a Canadian had acquired that status by descent from a Canadian parent, and who was either not lawfully admitted to Canada for permanent residence on the commencement of the Act or was born outside Canada afterwards, loss of citizenship could occur on the person's 22nd birthday unless the person had filed a declaration of retention between their 21st and 22nd birthday and renounced any previous nationality they possessed.

Although Canada restricted dual citizenship between 1947 and 1977, there were some situations where Canadians could nevertheless legally possess another citizenship. For example, migrants becoming Canadian citizens were not asked to formally prove that they had ceased to hold the nationality of their former country. Similarly children born in Canada to non-Canadian parents were not under any obligation to renounce a foreign citizenship they had acquired by descent. Holding a foreign passport did not in itself cause loss of Canadian citizenship.

Impact

The Canadian Citizenship Act replaced the following phrases throughout all federal legislation:[16]

"natural-born British subject" became "natural-born Canadian citizen"
"naturalized British subject" became "Canadian citizen other than a natural-born Canadian citizen"
"Canadian national" became "Canadian citizen"

An Act passed later in 1946 amended the Immigration Act, in order to specify that a "Canadian citizen" was one as defined in The Canadian Citizenship Act.[17]

These amendments would lead to later jurisprudence that addressed a transition that was problematic in certain cases.[18] Although the 1946 Act did not deprive any Canadian national of such status, being a Canadian national did not automatically confer Canadian citizenship, as the Act represented a complete code for defining such status.[19] The Act together with later retroactive amendments in 1953, had significant effects upon children of war brides. As Canadian soldiers fathered some 30,000 war children in Europe (including 22,000 in Britain and 6,000-7,000 in the Netherlands),[20] of which a great number were born out of wedlock,[21] the Act's provisions had differing impacts depending on how they were born:

Status of children born to war brides outside Canada under *The Canadian Citizenship Act* (1946), as at January 1, 1947[a 1]
How citizenship is acquired	Status	Citizen?	Subject to automatic revocation?
Natural-born[a 2]	Born in wedlock	Y[a 3]	N
Natural-born[a 2]	Born out of wedlock	Y[a 4]	citizenship could be revoked on the 24th birthday, except where Canadian domicile had been established by the 21st birthday, or a declaration of retention of citizenship was filed during the three years prior to the 24th birthday[a 2] where the citizen (and spouse, where applicable) has resided outside of Canada for ten consecutive years, except when in military service or other specified reasons[a 5]
Other than natural-born[a 6]	Born out of wedlock	Y[a 7]
who were minors on the day the Act came into force An Act to amend The Canadian Citizenship Act, S.C. 1952-53, c. 23, s. 2 where the father was a natural-born Canadian citizen, a British subject with Canadian domicile, had acquired citizenship by naturalization, or had had his domicile in Canada for the 20 years immediately before January 1, 1947 where the mother was a natural-born Canadian citizen, a British subject with Canadian domicile, had acquired citizenship by naturalization, or had had her domicile in Canada for the 20 years immediately before January 1, 1947 in the public service; being a representative of a Canadian company or international organization; or who is away because of ill health or disability (S.C. 1952-53, c. 23, s. 8) S.C. 1952-53, c. 23, s. 5 before 1947, deemed to be a British subject with Canadian domicile upon landing (P.C. 858, confirmed in Taylor (FCA), at par. 74), and thus becoming a Canadian citizen on the date the Act came into force (provided that domicile still existed); after that date, only where the Minister grants a special certificate to the child, lawfully admitted to Canada for permanent residence, whose responsible parent has already been granted a certificate of citizenship (S.C. 1946, c. 15, s. 10(3))

Extensions of citizenship

The Dominion of Newfoundland joined Confederation on 31 March 1949, and British subjects in Newfoundland acquired Canadian citizenship on broadly similar terms to those applying in the rest of Canada since 1947.
Those defined as Status Indians or "Eskimos" (Inuit) who were domiciled in Canada on 1 January 1947 (and had been resident in Canada for ten years as at 1 January 1956) were granted citizenship on 7 June 1956.[22]

1967 amendment

The rule relating to loss of citizenship by naturalized Canadians living outside Canada for more than ten years was repealed on 7 July 1967, with provision made for such loss to be reversed through a petition for resumption of citizenship.[23]

Citizenship Act, 1976

Citizenship Act
Long title An Act respecting citizenship
Citation	R.S.C., 1985, c. C-29
Commenced	15 February 1977
Repeals
Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946
Amended by
An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (S.C. 2008, c. 14) Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act (S.C. 2014, c. 22)
Status: Amended

Citizenship law was reformed by the Citizenship Act, 1976[24] (popularly known as the 1977 Act), which came into force on 15 February 1977. Canada removed restrictions on dual citizenship, and many of the provisions to acquire or lose Canadian citizenship that existed under the 1947 Act were repealed.

Under the new Act, Canadian citizenship is acquired by:

birth in Canada (except where neither parent is a citizen or permanent resident and either parent is a representative of a foreign government, their employee, or anyone granted diplomatic privileges or immunities)
birth outside Canada to a Canadian parent
grant after three years' residence in Canada
notification in the case of a woman who lost British subject status by marriage before 1947
delayed registration of a foreign birth under the Act before 15 February 1977 (This provision was repealed on 14 August 2004.)

Canadian citizens are in general no longer subject to involuntary loss of citizenship, barring revocation on the grounds of:

false representation,
fraud, or
knowingly concealing material circumstances.

Section 8 of the Act provides that Canadians born outside Canada, to a Canadian parent who also acquired Canadian citizenship by birth outside Canada to a Canadian parent, will lose Canadian citizenship at age 28 unless they have established specific ties to Canada and applied to retain Canadian citizenship. Children born outside Canada to naturalized Canadian citizens are not subject to the section 8 provisions, nor is anyone born before 15 February 1977.[25]

2009

In 2008, the Act was amended significantly by An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (S.C. 2008, c. 14).[26] Royal assent was given on 17 April 2008, coming into force one year later.[27] Among the main changes:

There is no longer a requirement nor any allowance to apply to maintain citizenship.
Individuals can now only become Canadian citizens by descent if one of their parents was either a native-born citizen of Canada or a foreign-born but naturalized citizen of Canada. This effectively limits citizenship by descent to one generation born outside Canada. Such an individual might even be stateless if he or she has no claim to any other citizenship.[lower-alpha 1]
The second generation born abroad can only gain Canadian citizenship by immigrating to Canada - this can be done by their Canadian citizen parents sponsoring them as dependent children, which is a category with fewer requirements and would take less time than most other immigration application categories.
Foreign-born citizens being adopted in a foreign country by Canadian citizens can now acquire Canadian citizenship immediately upon completion of the adoption, without first entering Canada as a permanent resident, as was the case under the previous rules.

Provision was also made for the reinstatement of Canadian citizenship to those:

who became citizens when the first citizenship act took effect on 1 January 1947 (including people born in Canada prior to 1947 and war brides) and who then lost their citizenship;
who were born in Canada or had become a Canadian citizen on or after 1 January 1947, and had then lost citizenship; or
who were born abroad to a Canadian citizen parent on or after 1 January 1947, if not already a citizen, but only if they were the first generation born abroad.

2014

On 6 February 2014, a bill entitled Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act (S.C. 2014, c. 22) was presented in the House of Commons to introduce several changes to the Act, which subsequently received royal assent on 19 June 2014.[32] Several provisions had retroactive effect to 17 April 2009, in order to correct certain situations that arose from the 2009 amendments, with the remainder coming into effect on 1 August 2014,[33] 28 May 2015,[34] and 11 June 2015.[35] Among the Act's significant changes:

Citizenship is granted retroactively to those individuals who were born or naturalized in Canada as well as to those who were British subjects residing in Canada prior to 1947 (or prior to April 1949, in the case of Newfoundland) who were not eligible for Canadian citizenship when the first Canadian Citizenship Act took effect.
The required residence prior to application for citizenship is lengthened to four years (1,460 days) out of the previous six years, with 183 days minimum of physical presence in four out of six years. Residency is defined as physical presence.
Adult applicants must file Canadian income tax returns, as required under the Income Tax Act, to be eligible for citizenship.
Time spent in Canada before being granted Permanent Resident status does not apply towards the residency period
A fast-track mechanism for citizenship is established for permanent residents serving with—and individuals on exchange with—the Canadian Armed Forces to honour their service to Canada.
Knowledge and language requirements are unchanged except that the knowledge test must be taken in English or French.
Authority is provided for revoking or denying citizenship in specified circumstances.
Provision is to be made for the regulation of consultants, as well as for certain anti-fraud measures.

2017

On February 25, 2016, as a consequence of the Liberal victory in the 2015 election, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act and to make consequential amendments to another Act (or Bill C-6) was presented to the House of Commons to roll back certain changes brought in by the 2014 amendments.[36] It received Royal assent on June 19, 2017.[37] Most provisions took effect upon Royal Assent, with the remainder coming into force on October 11, 2017[38] January 24, 2018[39] and December 5, 2018.[40]

The Act provides for the following changes:[41]

The period required for physical presence in Canada will be reduced from 1,460 days over six years to a total of 1,095 days over the five years immediately prior to submitting an application for citizenship.
The requirement that a person intend to reside in Canada if granted citizenship is to be repealed.
The adult maximum age limit applicable for the requirements to demonstrate adequate knowledge of one of the official languages is to be applicable to those under 55 years of age, rather than by those under 65.
The requirement to file income tax returns is clarified, so that persons must provide such returns for three years within the five-year period before applying for citizenship.
"Statelessness" is added to the available grounds for the Minister to exercise his or her discretion in granting citizenship to any person "to alleviate cases of special and unusual hardship or to reward services of an exceptional value to Canada."
The prohibition on receiving a grant of citizenship, or taking the citizenship oath, while serving a term of imprisonment is broadened to include being held under any form of incarceration.
The power to revoke citizenship on grounds of national security is to be repealed.
The provision specifying that a person whose citizenship is revoked reverts to being a foreign national is amended to provide that the person's status reverts to that of a permanent resident.
The Minister is to be granted the power to seize or detain any document submitted for the purposes of the Act if there are reasonable grounds to believe the document was fraudulently or improperly obtained or used.
Transitional provisions will provide that certain of the 2014 amendments will be deemed to have never had effect.

Significant cases relating to Canadian citizenship

There have been a number of court decisions dealing with the subject of Canadian citizenship:

Judicial review of provisions of current and previous Citizenship Acts
Case	Description
Glynos v Canada, 1992 CanLII 8572, [1992] 3 FCR 691 (24 September 1992), Federal Court of Appeal (Canada)	The Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) ruled that the child of a Canadian mother had the right to be granted Canadian citizenship, despite the fact that the responsible parent of the child (i.e. the father) had naturalized as a U.S. citizen before 15 February 1977 and had thus lost his Canadian citizenship.
Benner v Canada (Secretary of State), 1997 CanLII 376, [1997] 1 SCR 358 (27 February 1997), Supreme Court (Canada)	The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruled that children born abroad before 15 February 1977 of Canadian mothers were to be treated the same as those of Canadian fathers (i.e. granted citizenship upon application without the requirements of a security check or taking a citizenship oath).
Canada (Attorney General) v McKenna, 1998 CanLII 9098, [1999] 1 FCR 401 (19 October 1998), Federal Court of Appeal (Canada)	The FCA ruled that the Minister had to establish a bona fide justification pursuant to section 15(g) of the Canadian Human Rights Act for the discriminatory practice in the Act on adoptive parentage, where children born abroad to Canadian citizens obtain "automatic" citizenship while children adopted outside Canada must gain admission to Canada as permanent residents, as mandated by paragraph 5(2)(a) of the Citizenship Act, which incorporates by reference the requirements imposed by the Immigration Act pertaining to permanent resident status. However, this case also declared that the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal had overreached itself in declaring that the granting of citizenship was a service customarily available to the general public, and had breached the rules of natural justice by failing to notify the Minister that the provisions of the Citizenship Act were being questioned.

Canadians, British nationality, and immigration law (1947–1981)

The Canadian Citizenship Act, 1976 replaced the term "British subject" with "Commonwealth citizen" in 1977, but the UK did not follow suit until 1 January 1983, when the British Nationality Act 1981 went into effect.

While Canada created Canadian citizenship on 1 January 1947, the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914 continued to confer British subject status (the only nationality and citizenship status of the United Kingdom and its colonies and dominions before 1949) on Canadians until the British Nationality Act 1948 came into effect on 31 December 1948. That, together with succeeding Acts, changed the nature of Canadian citizenship status as it could apply within the UK:

Class	Act
Class	British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914	British Nationality Act 1948	Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962	Immigration Act 1971	British Nationality Act 1981
Canadian citizens under the Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946	Continued to be regarded as British subjects during 1947-1948	If not entitled to become a Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies as at 31 December 1948, are still entitled to be British subjects not subject to UK immigration control	non-CUKCs subject to immigration control, if neither born in the UK nor a holder of a UK passport immigration control later extended by the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968 to CUKCs without a UK-born parent or grandparent	the freedom to enter the UK without immigration control is defined as the right of abode, which is restricted to Commonwealth citizens who were "born to or legally adopted by a parent who at the time of the birth or adoption had citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies by his birth in the United Kingdom or in any of the Islands", or who were wives (or had been wives) of a CUKC or similarly situated Commonwealth citizen	British subject and Commonwealth citizen are declared to be separate and distinct classes, and British subjects are declared to be Commonwealth citizens Commonwealth citizens lose the right of abode if they cease to have such citizenship wives, as a result of marriages occurring after the coming into force of the Act, are no longer able to acquire the right of abode by the fact of such marriage
women from outside the Commonwealth who married Canadian citizens who did not naturalize as Canadian citizens before 1 January 1949.		If not entitled to become CUKCs, then they became "British subjects without citizenship"
children born outside Canada to Canadian fathers who were not registered as Canadian citizens before 1 January 1949.
children born outside Canada to Canadian fathers where the child was born before 1926 (hence aged over 21 on 1 January 1947) and had not been admitted to Canada as a landed immigrant before 1947.

Timeline

↓First Federal Act

↓First use of term "Canadian citizen"

↓P.C. 7138 – war brides provision

↓Dual citizenship loss rules revoked

↓Delayed foreign birth registration revoked

↓Standardized to Imperial naturalization criteria

↓Canadian citizenship separated from British nationality

↓Reform of descent rules

↓Uniformity of alien property ownership rules

↓Extension to Newfoundland

↓Reform of descent rules

↓Reform of adoption rules

↓"Canadian national" as separate status

↓Extension to First Nations

Aliens and Naturalization Act[1]

Naturalization and Aliens Act, 1881[3]

Immigration Act, 1910[5]

Naturalization Act, 1914[8]

Canadian Nationals Act, 1921[9]

Canadian Citizenship Act (1946)[42]

Citizenship Act (1976)[24]

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1867

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1899

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1931

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1963

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1995

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2027

Timeline of Canadian nationality law

Notes

This situation has already occurred at least twice. In one situation, Rachel Chandler was born in China to a father who is a Canadian citizen born in Libya and a mother who is a Chinese citizen. Due to the nationality laws of Canada and China, she was not eligible for citizenship of either country,[28] but, as her paternal grandfather was Irish-born,[29] she acquired Irish citizenship. Another situation occurred to Chloé Goldring who was born in Belgium to a Canadian father born in Bermuda and an Algerian mother. Due to the nationality laws of Belgium, Canada and Algeria, she was not eligible for citizenship of any of those countries and was born stateless.[30] Chloé Goldring was subsequently granted Canadian citizenship.[31]

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Taylor (FCA), par. 42
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Order Fixing the Day on which this Order is made as the Day on which Certain Provisions of the Act Come into Force, SI/2015-42
Order Fixing June 11, 2015 as the Day on which Certain Provisions of the Act Come into Force, SI/2015-46
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