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Dozen Countries: Countries Grant

dozen countries: Indeed, no European countries, for example, grant an unqualified automatic citizenship by birth and they have no obligation to do so, the federal submission says, according to CTV. Only 34 countries grant the automatic acquisition of citizenship through birthplace regardless of parents' nationality or status. Canada is one of fewer than three dozen countries that follow the practice of citizenship based on birthplace and some -- including Australia and Britain -- have modified or ended automatic birthright in recent years, the government says in a case that will determine whether the Toronto-born sons of Russian spies are Canadian citizens. This practice is not consistent and uniform enough to ground a rule of customary international law. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says one of the goals is to end the practice of women coming to Canada simply to give birth to a child that will automatically attain Canadian citizenship. The federal Liberals adopted a decidedly different tone recently after the Conservatives passed a policy resolution calling on the government to enact legislation to end birthright citizenship unless one of the parents of the child born in Canada is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.