V.
Repeal Section 3(3) of the Citizenship Act in order to ensure that all children of Canadian citizens
have the right to acquire Canadian citizenship, so as to eliminate potential sources of statelessness.
VI.
Amend Section 4(1) of the Citizenship Act to allow foundlings proved to have been born outside of
Canada to retain Canadian citizenship if revocation would result in statelessness.
VII.
Create a specific temporary ‘stateless person status’ for applicants in line with the relevant
recommendations in the UNHCR Handbook. The ‘stateless person status’ should allow persons
identified as stateless to be eligible for work, social housing, education, public healthcare and social
assistance, etc. In addition, such a status should provide stateless persons with expedited access to
permanent resident status, and ultimately, Canadian citizenship.
VIII.
Collect and make publicly available reliable, disaggregated data on statelessness, including data on
access to and results of existing statelessness determination measures, stateless men, women and
children, stateless persons in the asylum procedure and stateless persons in detention.
IX.
Provide regular training and awareness raising on statelessness and the protection of human rights
of stateless persons to all relevant state authorities, including staff of the IRCC, IRB, and CBSA.
X.
Ensure that stateless persons or persons at risk of statelessness are not subjected to arbitrary
detention because of their status. Instead, statelessness should be considered as a juridically
relevant fact to be assessed when deciding whether to remove or detain persons.
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