Talk:Canadian Citizenship Act 1946
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[edit] Obsolete law
The Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946 hasn't been in force for thirty years. It was completely superseded by the current Citizenship Act, which took effect on February 15, 1977. The current law was a total rewrite of the older law and drastically changed several things — perhaps most notably in the area of multiple citizenship (the old Canadian law was extremely unfriendly to dual citizenship, but the current law permits it without any restrictions). Richwales 15:01, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
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it would be nice for this article's relation to Lost Canadians, if a user-friendly version of the limits of applicability of citizenship under this law were made explicit in the article. I think (meaning I have no idea) that citizens who went to american hospitals for emergency labor and delivery had children who were considered first as citizens of the united states, and then could not gain automatic citizenship when they later returned home with their parents.
