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. 10

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