A Canadian passport is the passport issued to citizens of Canada. It enables the bearer to enter or re-enter Canada freely; travel to and from other countries in accordance with visa requirements; facilitates the process of securing assistance from Canadian consular officials abroad, if necessary; and requests protection for the bearer while abroad.
The front cover of the biometric Canadian passport issued since 2023.
Image: Canada passport data page large 2023
Special passport issued for the purpose of attending the 1936 Vimy pilgrimage. One of more than 6,000 issued.
A machine-readable, non-biometric Canadian passport pictured with a Coke Zero bottle in December 2007. The 2013–2023 series biometric Canadian passport had a very similar cover design as the aforementioned previous series, with only the addition of the biometric symbol below.
Canadian nationality law details the conditions by which a person is a national of Canada. The primary law governing these regulations is the Citizenship Act, which came into force on February 15, 1977 and is applicable to all provinces and territories of Canada.
Canadian nationality law
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King is presented with his citizenship certificate by Chief Justice Thibaudeau Rinfret after becoming the first Canadian citizen in 1947.
New citizens taking the oath of citizenship at a 2019 citizenship ceremony
