A new bill introduced in the House of Commons is offering a way for some to obtain Canadian citizenship. Article content

Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act , was tabled by Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship of Canada (IRCC) Lena Metlege Diab on Thursday. The bill would automatically grant Canadian citizenship to anyone who would be a citizen today if it weren’t for the first-generation limit or “outdated provisions,” the federal government said in a news release . Article content

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Currently, most Canadian citizens who are citizens by descent cannot pass their citizenship onto a child born or adopted outside the country.

The bill would also establish a new framework to allow for citizenship based on a Canadian parent’s c

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