Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025): Interesting data requirement addition

2025/10/10 2 Comments

Complete text of revised bill. Only part that struck my interest that had not been reported previously was the data provision:

26.1 (1) Within three months after the end of each fiscal year, the Minister must prepare a report for the previous year that sets out the number of persons who become citizens as a result of the coming into force of An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025), their countries of citizenship other than Canada, if any, their most recent country of residence and the provisions of this Act under which they are citizens.

(2) The Minister must cause the report to be laid before each House of Parliament on any of the first 15 days on which that House is sitting after the report is completed.”

Source: Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025)

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2 Responses to Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025): Interesting data requirement addition

  1. Raphael Solomon's avatar Raphael Solomon says:
    2025/10/10 at 07:32

    Are there privacy considerations? If not, I rather like the collection of data. It can lead to evidence based decisions.

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    • Andrew's avatar Andrew says:
      2025/10/10 at 08:36

      Don’t believe so as data is anonymized, with excluded data when only 5 respondents or less (standard StatsCan practice)

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