Do my kid need a Canadian passport when we travel from US to Canada by car?

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Let me ask you this. Did you or did you not declare your child's canadian citizenship in the eTA application for child? If you did, your child was one of those who fell in the cracks and gotten eTA when child should have not been issued one. If you did not declare it your child has gotten eTA through misrepresentation. Regardless if you intentionally omit the child's Canadian citizenship or you made a mistake in not declaring it, it is still misrepresentation. The child was not born prior 1977 whereby you had to register the child for citizenship. The law as of now your child was Canadian the moment he/she was born. No registration is required. Only proof of citizenship (apply for canadian certificate) was required since the child ALREADY had it since BIRTH.

A number of us here have taken the view that the child of a person born in Canada is a Canadian citizen, whether or not the child has applied for proof of that fact. However, what good is knowing one's citizenship, if it cannot be proved? There is nothing concrete that a person can do who just thinks he/she is a citizen...cannot get a passport, cannot get a SIN, cannot get government health coverage, etc. In fact, we have all read stories of people who thought they were Canadian citizens, and it turned out that they were not. So, for us to declare that Jess16's child is a Canadian citizen, and thus does not qualify for an ETA, is fine, except that it is just our opinion. It does not become a fact that can be acted upon until someone in officialdom declares that the child is a Canadian citizen. That is to say that I think what picklee wrote earlier has merit.

Jess16's wrote: "I ended up emailing Immigration Canada and since my child was born in Australia and hadnt been registered as a Canadian citizen she could enter Canada on her Australian passport with an ETA travel visa. She doesnt need a Canadian passport until she is registered as a Canadian citizen." What would we have Jess16 do, tell IRCC that they're wrong? Of course, she could have communicated with a clerk who didn't know what he/she was talking about, but isn't it also possible that IRCC takes the position that unless a person has been determined (by IRCC) to be a Canadian citizen, the person qualifies for an ETA?