BlackVelvet wrote:Does it feel wrong saying it's a bad thing sine your country allows it?
Alphanumeric wrote:He didn't say it's wrong. I think.
It is wrong if Somalia didn't give citizenship to anyone born within its jurisidiction. I remember when I had to volunteer for a hospital and I met a lady who just delivered a boy. The lady was from Spain and she and her husband were tourists. The lady was a month or so early delivering her baby. I remember the hospital staff saying their boy is a Canadian citizenship even though they were just tourists. They were really confused
Then there is that story of that baby born in "Canadian Airspace" and was given citizenship
The Federal Government has granted citizenship to Sasha, a child who was born to a Ugandan woman on an international flight crossing Canada.
The baby, who weighed six-pound (2.2 kilogram), was delivered at 30,000 feet on a crowded Northwest Airlines from Amsterdam to Boston on the Eve of New Year.
The mother who was eight-and-half months pregnant when she boarded the plane, went into labour just six hours after the plane took-off and subsequently delivered the child as the plane crossed through the Canadian airspace.
Under the law, almost anyone who is born here is a Canadian citizen, said communications director for immigration minister Jason Kenney.
She said that the general rule has few exception, one of which means that children born of foreign diplomats in this country will not be granted Canadian citizenship.
She said that it is the opinion of the government that someone who is born in an airplane crossing over Canada is a beneficiary of the rule.
Ms. Velshi said that the government believes that Canadian territory extends to the airspace as well, and this means that a child born in the Canadian airspace is a Canadian citizen
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