You may be Canadian and not even realize it

[KamaAina]

worse still, your neighbor or coworker might be Canadian. "They walk among us..." :scared:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123993183347727843.html

The April 17 amendment to Canada's Citizenship Act automatically restores Canadian nationality to many people forced to renounce it when they became citizens of another country. It also grants citizenship to their children.

The Canadian government doesn't know the precise number or location of individuals affected by the legislation. But it believes most are U.S. citizens, a spokeswoman for Canada's immigration office said. U.S. Department of Homeland Security records show 240,000 Canadians were naturalized in the U.S. from 1948 to 1977; the new law fixes problems that occurred during those years.

To reach that amorphous group of beneficiaries, the Canadian government has turned to YouTube. It's running an ad there titled "Waking up Canadian," in which a man awakens on April 17 to a room festooned with red-and-white Canadian flags. He's met by a welcoming committee consisting of two stuffed plush moose, a hockey player, and a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police....

The citizenship bonanza is the byproduct of a decadeslong struggle by a motley group of people who claim they were unfairly denied or lost their Canadian nationality. Canadian families who crossed the border in 1947 to 1977 to have their babies in a U.S. hospital found those children weren't recognized as Canadians unless the families registered them with the government. Some foreign brides of Canadian World War II servicemen lost their citizenship if they stayed out of the country for a decade or more.

Of course, the last thing a Canadian would do these days is cross the border to have a baby in one of our hospitals!

So, who's secretly a hoser? Might as well 'fess up. I can spot one like a cheap toupee. All I have to do is ask "What's the last letter of the alphabet?" The correct answer is 'zee'; 'zed' will get you a one-way ticket back to the land of poutine and Kraft Dinner. :P

[whistler162]

1. Hold it Canadians only have three letters in the alphabet?

Aeeee, Beeee, Zeeee! OKAY!

[glowing]

2. Me, me, me.. But a llllllooooongggg time ago.

My grandmother had family that came from PEI.. when we visited we found the old grave and did one of those trace, sketches. Does it count? I'm not even sure America was America when they actually immigrated down to VT. But I'd love to be able to claim Canadianship, along with their medical bennies.

[whistler162]

3. You know this might make ex-President's Bush

Canadian! Since his family was Loyalist and went to Canada after the Revolution and then came back to the US later.

[sufrommich]

4. My Gramps was Canadian, but came to Michigan before

1948.I still have hoser cousins in the Soo and drink LaBatts Blue,does that count?

[customerserviceguy]

5. Interesting

I was born in Canada, and adopted by US citizens who promptly applied for US citizenship for me. Since 1959, I've lived exclusively as a US citizen (although I questioned that briefly during the military draft of the early 1970's), I wonder if I'm affected by this law change...

[whistler162]

6. If you have the documentation then it would be

worth looking into.

because this uniducated reeding of the article it sounds like you might be affected by the law.

Heck, you probably already have the right to apply for a Canadian passport due to where you where born and being under the age of majority when you became a US citzen.

[walkaway]

7. I wish n/t

[MineralMan]

8. Not me. Besides, Canada does not actually exist.

London is in England. There is no such place as Ontario.

Vancouver is in Washington state.

Saskatoon is a silly name. Nobody would live in a place called Saskatoon. Therefore it doesn't exist.

And talk about silly names, what about Nunavut? I'll have nunuvthat. That's just silly.

I drove north in Minnesota. Where Canada was supposed to be was a freaking ocean, or what looked like one, anyhow.

Yeah, and where is it that they speak French? France, right.

That funny accent is the same as people on the evening news and in some parts of Wisconsin.

And Niagara Falls? That's in New York.

And what about Alaska? That's a freaking state in the USA, and it's north of Washington, isn't it?

So, I'm no Canadian. I'm not a figment of anyone's imagination.

[east texas lib]

9. And Canadian is in Texas...

:o

[whistler162]

12. Texas is in New York as is Mexico....

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. Plus, nobody can say "Regina" with a straight face

Not if they pronounce it like a Canadian, eh?

:hi:

[shanti]

10. this is interesting...

my gg-grandfather was canadian. there's even a road in ontario with the family name, and it's not your everyday last name.

i'm a hoser too, albeit too far in the past to take advantage of it!

[The Straight Story]

11. I would know, soon as they said 'aboot' or 'eh'

:hide:

[CitizenWill]

13. POUTINE!!! nt

[Oregone]

15. The zed thing here throws me for a loop

That and not being able to buy beer in the grocery store are hard to get used to.

[deaniac21]

16. Nah, I don't talk funny.

[RandomThoughts]

17. I always thought

Z was just 7 :shrug: