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华人生育旅游冲击加拿大出生公民权引发争议 ‘Birth Tourism’ Is Legal in Canada. A Lawmaker Calls It Unscrupulous. RICHMOND, British Columbia — Melody Bai arrived in Vancouver from China in the late stages of pregnancy with one goal: to give birth to a Canadian baby. 不列颠哥伦比亚省列治文——麦勒蒂·白(Melody Bai)在怀孕后期从中国来到了温哥华，目的只有一个：生个加拿大宝宝。 Awaiting her was an elaborate ecosystem catering to pregnant women from China, including a spacious “baby house” where she spent four months, attended to by a Mandarin-speaking housekeeper. 等待她的，是一个迎合中国孕妇需求的完善生态系统，包括一座宽敞的育婴房，她在这里度过了四个月，有一位说中文的家政人员照料。 Caregivers offered free breast massages to promote lactation, outings to the mall, lectures on childbirth with other Chinese mothers-to-be and excursions for high tea. 看护人提供了催乳的免费胸部按摩、商场购物、和其他中国准妈妈一起听育婴讲座，以及忙里偷闲去喝个下午茶。 “It’s an investment in my child’s education,” Ms. Bai, a 28-year-old flight attendant, said by phone from Shanghai, months after returning to China with her newborn and passport in hand. “We chose Canada because of its better natural and social environment.” “这是给孩子教育的投资，”在抱着新生宝宝、拿着护照回到中国几个月后，这位28岁的空乘从上海接受电话采访时说。“我们选择加拿大是由于它更好的自然和社会环境。” Ms. Bai is part of a growing phenomenon in Canada known as birth tourism, which is not only generating political opposition, but mobilizing self-appointed vigilantes determined to stop it. 白是加拿大日益增长的“生育旅游”现象的一部分，此现象不仅招致了政治上的反对，也招来了自发组织的纠察，执意要将其阻止。 It is perfectly legal. 它完全合法。 Under the principle of jus soli — the right of the soil — being born in Canada confers automatic citizenship. But as more pregnant women arrive each month to give birth, some Canadians are protesting that they are gaming the system, testing the limits of tolerance and debasing the notion of citizenship. 根据“属地主义原则”(Jus soli)，即土地衍生的权利，出生在加拿大的婴儿会自动获得该国的公民权。但随着越来越多的孕妇每月前来生育，一些加拿大人抗议她们在利用这套系统，考验宽容的限度，贬低国民身份的概念。 In Richmond, a city outside Vancouver where about 53 percent of its roughly 200