Foreign Nationals and Federal Departments

federal departments: The proposal, marked "secret" and with inputs from various federal departments, found fewer than 500 cases of children being born to foreign nationals in Canada each year, amounting to just 0.14 per cent of the 360,000 total births per year in the country. , according to Hamilton Spectator. The issue of citizenship by birth on Canadian soil once again raises concerns among critics over the current government policy considerations being based on ideologies rather than evidence and objective cost-benefit analyses. Immigration officials have recommended that Ottawa remove citizenship rights to babies born in Canada to non-citizens and non-residents even though the small number of cases doesn't justify the costs. Tories propose sweeping changes to obtain Canadian citizenship (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.