Canada’s stateless children

 

Snug in the womb of her mother in April 2009, Chloé couldn’t know that a change in Canadian law was about to make her stateless.

 

Chloé was born in July 2009 in Belgium, to an Algerian mother and a Canadian father. She is denied Canadian citizenship because her father was born outside Canada to a Canadian father. Nor is Chloé eligible for citizenship under Algerian or Belgian law, leaving her stateless. Without