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You Might Already Be Canadian. Here's How to Find Out — and Why Millions of Americans Are Suddenly Checking. The Law That Quietly Changed Everything For decades, Canadian citizenship by descent had a hard stop built into it. Under a 2009 rule known as the "first-generation limit," a Canadian citizen born outside Canada could not pass citizenship to a child who was also born abroad — even if that child grew up steeped in Canadian identity, language, and family. It cut off enti