If your child became a PR, and then you applied for citizenship on their behalf, they are a citizen by naturalization. Their citizenship is not 'tainted' like yours, rather, they are more of a 'true' citizen than you are and they will be able to pass on their citizenship (unless the laws change).
Rant all you want, I hear it from my husband who was born abroad but moved back to Canada before he could run. And he could not pass on his citizenship to his children when they were born outside Canada.
Damn, you certainly have my ticket! Yep, I'm both livid about the Harper change, and astounded at how this all works (my family returned after a couple years abroad when I was an infant and I didn't spend time abroad until I was out of university).
Thanks for letting me rant.
So: my kid who as a minor and sum total has spent less than a year in Canada is naturalized and can pass on, even if they were to leave Canada tomorrow. (Ok, our plans are permanent, just saying). And if they had a kid abroad, they could just come back and do what I did. Granted, it would take some effort, but it's both more annoying and in practice less strict than the US approach (which bases it on living a certain number of years over the age of 16 or something like that). With a bit of determination it could be maintained forever with only a couple years in Canada here and there.
Waytago Harper.
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