Canada has introduced legislation that would expand on who can become a Canadian citizen on the basis of descent, saying holding citizenship “lies at the heart of what it means to be Canadian.”

The federal government introduced Bill C-3 on Thursday, which it says will extend citizenship by descent beyond the first generation.

The new bill tackles issues that surrounds Canada’s current first-generation limit.

Under that limit, a child born outside the country to a parent also born or adopted by a Canadian citizen while not in Canada does not receive citizenship upon birth, even though the grandparent was from Canada. While the parent could receive citizenship, their child could not.

Bill C-3 would change that, the government says, by automatically giving Canadian citizenship to anyone w

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