Are you Canadian?

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At first thought this might ought to go in the jokes section for KY Canuck,.. LOL


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APRIL 17, 2009 Canada Issues a Wake-Up Call: You May Be a Citizen
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By PHRED DVORAK
Thanks to a new law, Canada will bestow citizenship Friday on what its government believes could be hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting foreigners, most of them Americans.

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.


In the video 'Waking Up Canadian,' a man goes to sleep in a drab room and wakes up to find out that he's become a citizen of Canada. Surrounded by flags, maple-leaf-shaped cookies and a canister of maple syrup, he's welcomed by a hockey player, two plush moose and a uniformed Mountie.
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[KYCanuck]

Well.......that's news. I guess this new law will also make it easier for me to keep my Canadian Citizenship when I apply for Dual Citizenship soon! Cool.