Author Topic: When do immigrants become "Canadians"?  (Read 2476 times)

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Re: When do immigrants become "Canadians"?
« Reply #60 on: September 01, 2018, 03:54:21 pm »
It's difficult to get accurate statistics when the application form provided for newborns does not contain any box for citizenship of parents. As far as I know the only known statistics are those done by a single hospital in Richmond BC, where according to a Liberal MP, a fifth of the births were to foreign parents. I don't think we can extrapolate from that across the country, of course, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out if 300+ anchor babies are born in this one hospital in a year there are many, many more.

According to Statistics Canada, there are about 300 births annually where the place of residence of the birth mother is outside of Canada. That of course has nothing to do with the citizenship question, but it does show the maximum extent of tourism babies. Only a subset of those would be non-citizens, and a subset of that would be where the parents request citizenship which was the original question.
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