New immigration rules create two-tier Canadians: critics

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OTTAWA — New rules intended to protect the value of Canadian citizenship will create a two-tiered system with children born or adopted overseas relegated to an “inferior” class of citizenship, critics say.

Proposed federal regulations unveiled in mid-December seek to prevent children born to or adopted by Canadians outside the country from passing citizenship on to their children if they also are born abroad.

Source: nationalpost.com