"Birth Tourism"? Kerry Starchuk and Martin Collacott discuss the issue
Roy Green Show
English - October 02, 2016 20:42 - 19 minutes - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
It's called "birth tourism." Foreigners, come to Canada to stay as their pregnancies near term. When they're about to go into labour the women are taken to Vancouver (and other BC) hospitals to give birth. The children are automatically Canadian citizens and may become so-called "anchor babies."
Is it okay for them to receive Canadian citizenship automatically?
Kerry Starchuk is a ifelong resident of Richmond, BC. She lives next door to a so-called "baby house", where women are lodged until they're about to go into labour. Kerry has been the subject of stories in the Vancouver Sun and Richmond paper. She has a national e-petition for the federal government underway, calling on Ottawa to change federal law to disallow "birth tourism" as Australia has done.
Martin Collacott, former Canadian Ambassador to Syria and Lebanon. and an immmigration expert, who has advised Kerry on the petition and the issue.
They join us today, on the Roy Green Show.
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It's called "birth tourism." Foreigners, come to Canada to stay as their pregnancies near term. When they're about to go into labour the women are taken to Vancouver (and other BC) hospitals to give birth. The children are automatically Canadian citizens and may become so-called "anchor babies."
Is it okay for them to receive Canadian citizenship automatically?
Kerry Starchuk is a ifelong resident of Richmond, BC. She lives next door to a so-called "baby house", where women are lodged until they're about to go into labour. Kerry has been the subject of stories in the Vancouver Sun and Richmond paper. She has a national e-petition for the federal government underway, calling on Ottawa to change federal law to disallow "birth tourism" as Australia has done.
Martin Collacott, former Canadian Ambassador to Syria and Lebanon. and an immmigration expert, who has advised Kerry on the petition and the issue.
They join us today, on the Roy Green Show.
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