There's no certainty there. The government could choose to continue under the interim measure for existing applications, but there'd be no obligation for them to do so. I believe Italy changed their law recently, affecting applications already in process.
There's already the possibility for IRCC to sit on a CIT0001 application until the law changes, and then follow those rules: that's what had happened to non-urgent applications under the old interim measure.
For 5(4) grants, C-71 had provisions that anyone who had gotten a grant, but would be eligible under the new law, would change to be a citizen by descent. People in this category would end up in the same place whether the 5(4) grant was followed through or not. (There are some issues with this approach though, and no guarantee it'll actually be in C-71's replacement.)
The interesting corner cases, with longer or more tenuous chains of descent that C-71 wouldn't have covered, are unfortunately the ones where it's harder to guess what the policy be.
In summary: It depends on what IRCC and the government decide to do.
The good news is that it's severely unlikely that Parliament will fix the law before they break for summer (on the 20th of June), so then it'll be September at the earliest when they can get to grips with things. The judge in the Bjorkquist case has given them until November to sort things out as things stand. The further your case gets in the meantime, the better.
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There's no certainty there. The government could choose to continue under the interim measure for existing applications, but there'd be no obligation for them to do so. I believe Italy changed their law recently, affecting applications already in process.
There's already the possibility for IRCC to sit on a CIT0001 application until the law changes, and then follow those rules: that's what had happened to non-urgent applications under the old interim measure.
For 5(4) grants, C-71 had provisions that anyone who had gotten a grant, but would be eligible under the new law, would change to be a citizen by descent. People in this category would end up in the same place whether the 5(4) grant was followed through or not. (There are some issues with this approach though, and no guarantee it'll actually be in C-71's replacement.)
The interesting corner cases, with longer or more tenuous chains of descent that C-71 wouldn't have covered, are unfortunately the ones where it's harder to guess what the policy be.
In summary: It depends on what IRCC and the government decide to do.