A piece of legislation making its way through Ottawa this fall and set to come into effect in January, if not earlier, will restore and grant Canadian citizenship to thousands of people around the world who were previously shut out by an earlier rule.

It also means a handful of celebrities — including Hillary Clinton, Madonna and Viggo Mortensen, among others — will also, by virtue of their Canadian ancestry, become Canadians.

“This has a huge impact on people all over the world who are descendants of Canadians,” Toronto immigration lawyer Valerie Kleinman from Green and Spiegel told National Post in an interview.

“I can imagine a situation where there are many people globally who will be Canadian and will actually have no idea that they are Canadian, which is really interesting.”

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