High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lost Canadians are those individuals who believed themselves to be Canadian citizens but actually lost their citizenship (or never had citizenship) through the operation of either the current citizenship law or that previously in force, prior to 1977.On May 29, 2007, Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Diane Finley announced her proposal to amend the Citizenship Act. Under the proposal, anyone naturalized in Canada since 1947 would have citizenship even if they lost it under the 1947 Act. Also, anyone born since 1947 outside the country to a Canadian mother or father, in or out of wedlock, would have citizenship if they are the first generation born abroad.