Missed ’Lost Canadians’ deadline would make ’unknowable’ number of new citizens: feds

The government is asking court for its third deadline extension to pass a bill to give citizenship to so-called 'Lost Canadians'

OTTAWA — An unknown number of people will automatically become Canadian citizens next week if the Ontario Superior Court doesn’t grant the federal government a third extension to fix the issue of “lost Canadians,” Canada argued in court Thursday.

“Lost Canadians” is a term applied to people who were born outside of the country to Canadian parents who were also born in another country.