The Bill C-3 Paradox: Dismantling Canada’s Generational Limit and the June 2026 Paperwork Crisis

For nearly two decades, a quiet legal barrier stood between thousands of families worldwide and their inherited right to Canadian identity. Known as the First-Generation Limit (FGL), this provision of the Citizenship Act strictly dictated that Canadian citizens born abroad could not pass their citizenship onto their children if those children were also born outside of Canada.

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Removing Previous Bill C-3 BarriersThe Origin of Bill C-3: Rectifying an Unconstitutional LimitThe Changing Landscape of Canadian Citizenship by DescentThe “Substantial Connection”...