Commentary
If through bad luck or bad planning you or your significant other gave birth while on vacation in Bali, you would not expect your baby to be given Indonesian citizenship. Yet in Canada, a baby born to a tourist mother is instantly a citizen.
Canada is one of a handful of countries that grants citizenship to anyone born on its soil. Ending this approach would be good policy, simple, and popular.
Though it receives little media coverage, birth tourism hums along under the radar year after year, showing no signs of abating.
Data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information shows that, after briefly dipping during the pandemic as international travel nosedived, non-resident births have rebounded….