In preparation for this, I went to go find my citizenship card. You used to do these citizenship cards; now you do these big certificates. The cards are way better. Everyone I meet prefers the cards just generally because they can carry them with them.
If my children had children overseas and they were impacted by something like this and had to prove it, I would then be their proof. My question to you, because you've now said it twice, is this: Does “known to the department” mean that you know you've issued a card or a document of citizenship at some point?
All of those documents are digital. Is that correct? Is there a digital database of all Canadian citizenship ever issued? This is something new to me, so I'm asking whether that's the case.