Canadian parents say the Citizenship Bill ends the rights of children adopted abroad

Canadian parents of children adopted abroad say the proposed toll represents a “shocking and incomprehensible erosion of their children’s rights by the Government.”

The Federal Government is in the process of ending the act of citizenship so that Canadians born abroad can pass it on to more generations. This bill would also restore or grant citizenship to citizens who were placed under the old citizen laws.

But Kat Lanteigne, an adopted son born in Zambia, said the new requirement that Canadian children born abroad show that Canada treats adopted children as Adocud Babies as immigrants. “It does not bring our son as a Canadian citizen,” she said.

In 2009, changes were made to Canadian citizenship laws that stopped the automatic transfer of citizenship by birth to foreign-born children if both Canadian parents were also born in other countries.

This law was struck down by the Ontario court in 2023 and the government of Mark Carney Linelue Government proposed to implement the law which was considered constitutional.

But Lanteigne said the proposed drug sets up a “Checklist” that includes children born outside Canada and children born outside Canada but adopted by Canadians inside Canada.

Government officials say as many as 2,000 children could be affected by the law.

“We are adopting our child from another country, but we are actually adopting our child from the province of Ontario and the country of Canada,” she said. “He doesn’t know any other nation than his life in Canada.”

Although elements of the bill have not yet been passed into law, Lanteigne says that if her son were to move abroad and have children, he would, in theory, have to prove citizenship to any children. The connection test will not apply to the same circumstances as someone born in Canada.

“Seeking an international AdoptTee, who has been adopted by Canadian families living in Canada and granted citizenship by the Canadian government, really hurts who you are,” he said. “It’s completely and utterly brutal.”

The 1993 Hague Convention on Inter-Country Adoption states: “The [adopted] The child shall enjoy in the receiving State, and in any other contracting state where the adoption is accepted, rights equivalent to those arising from the adoption having effect in each case. “

While all Canadian provinces and territories are on board with the convention, Lanteigne said Bill C-3 puts the federal government in the breach.

In early October, Parliament’s Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration voted down an amendment from Liberal Member Nathaniel Erskine-Smith that sought to address the issue.

Erskine-Smith told lawmakers that any disparity “between a child born in Canada and a child born abroad” cannot be disputed.

The situation at the time was tense in the committee after -Smith told experts that he felt “misled” by their evaluation of his amendments, nothing passed. The first was withdrawn after Erskine-Smith was told that the amendment should be “used from person to person” based on the Committee and despite the independence of the committee, all votes were in favor of the amendment.

Two conservative members of the committee raised concerns about the possibility that children welcomed from other countries could become victims of human trafficking.

“To point to child trafficking as the quality of our son’s citizenship status is politics over dog health that has no place in this discussion,” Lanteigne said in a letter to law enforcement officials. “My son’s Canadian citizenship rights are not fodder for Partisansip or xenophobic rhetoric.”

In Canada, citizenship is granted to children from abroad at the end of the adoption process – a mature process that takes years.

Erskine-Smith and Lanteigne point to laws in the UK that marked internationally adopted children as if they had been born in the UK to UK citizenship for any children they have.

“Our child is a 16th-Generation Anication priest who built Acatia, served at VIMY Ridge and Dieppe, and his charging rights must be protected by our slaves,” said Lanteigne. “The fact that he was born in another nation should not affect the quality and consideration of his citizenship status.”