今日はカナダの目を覚ますんでした?

A new Canadian citizenship law 4月に発効した 17, 2009 その可能性 何千人もの人々への助成金カナダの市民権, その多くはアメリカ人です。.

To promote this new law, Citizenship and Immigration Canada has released a YouTube video, “カナダを目覚める.” Corny, はい, but the law is a serious change.

According to the government’s プレスリリース announcing the new law:

The changes implemented today mean that certain people who became Canadian citizens on or after January 1, 1947, when the first citizenship act took effect, and who then lost citizenship, will have their status restored back to the date they lost it. Some may have lost it when they left the country. その他, born outside Canada, may have ceased to be Canadian by not taking steps to retain their citizenship.

The changes will also grant citizenship to those who have never been Canadian, but who are part of the first generation born outside Canada on or after January 1, 1947, to a Canadian parent. Their citizenship will be retroactive to their date of birth.

あなたはカナダの目を覚ますんでした? Go to the CIC’s website “Am I a Canadian citizen under the new law?” to find out.