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Swede

(39,497 posts) Mon Dec 8, 2025, 06:53 PM Dec 2025

These five famous Americans will become Canadian citizens, thanks to a new citizenship law

Some famous Americans— including Madonna and Hillary Clinton—will be considered Canadian citizens under a new law.

On November 20, Bill C-3: An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025) was passed by the Canadian federal government, removing the first-generation limit (FGL) to citizenship by descent.

https://www.cicnews.com/2025/12/these-five-famous-americans-will-become-canadian-citizens-thanks-to-a-new-citizenship-law-1262933.html

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These five famous Americans will become Canadian citizens, thanks to a new citizenship law (Original Post) Swede Dec 2025 OP

I have similar family lines to Madonna... WarGamer Dec 2025 #1

Aw right, Disaffected Dec 2025 #2

My Great Grandfather and Grandfather emigrated from Canada so I would like to reverse that trend. nt yaesu Dec 2025 #3

My brain is not computing on this. So Madonna is Canadian because her great-grandparents were from Canada? chowder66 Dec 2025 #4

WarGamer

(18,613 posts)

1. I have similar family lines to Madonna...

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 07:11 PM

Dec 2025

French Canadian leaving Canada 3-4 generations ago

Disaffected

(6,408 posts)

2. Aw right,

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 07:18 PM

Dec 2025

maybe Hillary could run for PM!

yaesu

(9,328 posts)

3. My Great Grandfather and Grandfather emigrated from Canada so I would like to reverse that trend. nt

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Mon Dec 8, 2025, 08:41 PM

Dec 2025

chowder66

(12,246 posts)

4. My brain is not computing on this. So Madonna is Canadian because her great-grandparents were from Canada?

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 10:33 PM

Dec 2025

Same goes for Hillary Clinton.

If that's the case then my mother can also claim Canadian citizenship because her great-grandmother was born in Canada to a family that settled in Ontario in the 1780's from the East Coast. Her mother married my great-great grandfather who was from Cornwall but immigrated to Canada about 1830.

Do I have this right?

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