Most of our peer nations figured out a long time ago that automatically granting citizenship to anyone born on their soil was problematic. That’s because the principle of jus soli can create citizens with zero actual ties to the country, incentivize illegal migration and other mechanisms to game the immigration system, and place a financial burden on the citizenship-bestowing nation. That can be particularly expensive for a country like Canada with universal, socialized health care and other public entitlements.
