Ottawa offers ‘discretionary grant of citizenship’ to ‘lost Canadians’ hit by 1st generation limit

By Cristin Schmitz ( March 13, 2025, 5:05 PM EDT) -- Ottawa says it is again asking a court to give it more time to replace an unconstitutional citizenship law, but in the meantime it is offering a “discretionary grant of citizenship” to certain categories of people affected by the Citizenship Act’s "first-generation limit" to citizenship by descent....