Hat Kanada im Jahr 2025 rückwirkend die Staatsbürgerschaft durch Abstammung erweitert?

Yes, it did. And it has some interesting effects. The biggest one being that Americans who have documentation stating that their nth direct ancestor was born in Canada are applying to be Canadian citizens by descent en masse to give them more options (for example, they can escape some of the divisive politics in their country and the violence associated with such division and polarization).

The other effect is that for people who come from countries that restrict dual citizenship, this fuels a new form of reverse birth tourism. While people were talking about Chinese people coming to Canada to give birth to Canadian citizens (thereby creating dual citizens, one of the few forms of dual citizenship that China allows), these dual citizens themselves will be encouraged to engage in reverse birth tourism where they live in Canada, but travel back to China for the sole reason of giving birth to their child to guarantee that said child will be a Chinese citizen, and bring them right back to Canada (previously, before Bill C-3, this practice can only happen for 1 generation, now it can happen to infinite generations if each person lives in Canada for 3 years before having their child abroad).

I am a bit worried for our healthcare. People with existing health issues living in countries without universal healthcare have more incentive to move to Canada than stay where they are.

I am hoping someone in government is doing the math and putting extra cash into the system

Such a mistake.

I honestly do not know how much more immigration Canada can handle. The healthcare system, educational system, housing market & job market are all strained enough as is.

People have been getting approved and their last ancestor lived here in the 1800s…having both bloodright and birthright citizenship is pretty wild.

Expand after reducing it first you mean? Which country denies citizenship to children of its own citizens when they were born abroad?

It’s not the doom and gloom folks here are predicting.

The number of people that can (and would even care to) apply for citizenship this way is in the thousands. Maybe tens of thousands.

Unless they decide to become productive members of Canadian society by moving here, social benefits are largely off the table for them. EI doesn’t apply unless they’ve worked enough hours in Canada. OAS doesn’t kick in unless one has lived in Canada for ten years. Provincial healthcare only kicks in six months after establishing residency. Consular services aren’t free, and let’s face it, in comparison to the consular reach of what the US and EU countries can offer for their citizens, Canada’s is at best mediocre.

Going forward, until the rules change, there will be limitations to how citizenship by descent can be passed on i.e. first generation no questions asked, second generation and further generations if one parent has cumulatively lived in Canada for a non-trivial amount of time.