1 canadian 1 chinese= 1baby what?

I"m not sure i' in the right section to be asking but it has to do with legalities..


I'm a Canadian my Husband is a Chinese National.. we're having a baby. Now the question of which passport came up.


I prefer a canadian passport because i don't want trouble when i try to visit canada with the baby.


My husband argues that it's not difficult even if the baby gets a chinese passport as long as we have the birth certificate. But better to get a chinese passport until we officially move back to canada so that we don't have to pay outrageous amounts for school daycare.. ect..


I"m not too sure what the rules are and i'm not finding too much info about.. other then how to get a canadian passport.. What i'm really looking for is the pros and cons to getting one over the other.


Help?

Asking Canadian officials will not cause problems.


I had the same situation when my daughter arrived - born in VietNam to a Vietnamese citizen.


We completed the bureaucratic VN procedures and then I advised the Canadian consulate of the 'live birth'. She is officially known to them, and accepted to be a Canadian citizen, except she has no Canadian passport. When the time comes she will get the passport so she can travel outside VietNam as a Canadian free of the need to get visas.


In the ASEAN region she can use her VN passport to also avoid getting visas.


By not 'officially' claiming to be Canadian your child won't endanger her CN citizenship. By doing it in this way it is unlikely that the CN will become aware of this. In any event, CN citizenship regulations are loosening up. People who have officially emigrated from CN are now being invited back to work in CN with full rights (and liabilities) as CN citizens.


Only cross the CN border using a CN passport.