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Citizenship Pathway for Former Youth in Care

An Act to amend the Citizenship Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act

Summary

  • Creates a clear path to citizenship for non-citizens who aged out of child welfare, foster care, or similar provincial care while resident in Canada, with defined eligibility (e.g., at least 365 days in care and 1,095 days of physical presence).
  • Allows the Minister to waive eligibility requirements on compassionate grounds and treats an applicant’s written statement about time in care as presumptive proof unless the Minister finds otherwise.
  • Updates regulation-making powers to administer and assess the new citizenship route and associated waivers.
  • Pauses enforcement of removal orders for applicants under this new route until a final decision, and voids a pending removal order if citizenship is granted.

Builder Assessment

Abstain

Principles Analysis

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Canada should aim to be the world's most prosperous country.

Primarily a rights and status measure for a small group; macroeconomic effects on national prosperity are limited and indirect.

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Promote economic freedom, ambition, and breaking from bureaucratic inertia (reduce red tape).

Provides a straightforward status pathway and suspends removals during processing, reducing legal limbo and barriers to work and education for former youth in care.

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Drive national productivity and global competitiveness.

May modestly improve participation and stability for a small cohort, but the scale is too limited to move national productivity or competitiveness.

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Grow exports of Canadian products and resources.

No direct connection to trade or export growth.

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Encourage investment, innovation, and resource development.

No direct implications for investment or resource development policy.

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Deliver better public services at lower cost (government efficiency).

Could reduce costly removals and litigation but adds IRCC processing duties; net efficiency impact is unclear without service standards and resourcing details.

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Reform taxes to incentivize work, risk-taking, and innovation.

Does not alter tax policy.

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Focus on large-scale prosperity, not incrementalism.

Narrow, targeted reform with limited macroeconomic relevance; effects on large-scale prosperity are minimal.

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C-274

PartyMember of Parliament
StatusOutside the Order of Precedence
Last updatedN/A
TopicsImmigration, Social Welfare, Social Issues
Parliament45