Passport applicants find they're not Canadian

[Foxy Brown]

Hundreds of people are suddenly discovering that they are not Canadians as new laws requiring travellers to have a passport to fly to the U.S. go into effect Tuesday, CBC's investigative unit has learned.

Many applying for a Canadian passport have been informed their chance to remain a citizen expired years ago because of an obscure provision in the Citizenship Act, a little-known law that applied between 1947 and 1977.

[JFC]

I saw this on the news last night. It's a shame that these people have to go through all this extra hassle because of a law that few people knew of at the time.

[shindoushiz]

I can't believe that they would do that to people. That law doesn't even make any sense in the first place.