Guys, what does it actually mean? Suppose if am in Canada for 3 years continuously, can I apply for citizenship after 3 years or I have to wait for 5 years??
I believe that the 3/5 will mean that the applicant for Canadian citizenship has to have been physically present as a permanent resident within the borders of Canada for at least 3 x 365 days, all of which days will have to have been during the last 5 years. So if you're at 3 years now (as I will be myself come this Friday, yippee!), then you'll be good to go as soon as the 3/5 stipulation reaches its effective date, post Royal Assent (which'll be sometime later today, I gather and sincerely hope). So no, the applicant will not have to have been in Canada for the last 5 years; only 3 x 365 days. But if you needed to in order to get up to 3 x 365 days, then you would be allowed to go back 5 years from your application date and count in any days from back that far (i.e., 5 years ago's date). The only regulatory interpretive uncertainty at this stage, so far as CIC/IRCC bureaucrats are concerned, will presumably to decide whether countable days of physical presence will have to have been during taxable years or not.