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File No. 088489 · Adjudicated
Avril Lavigne
Musician — Girlfriend, Sk8er Boi, Complicated
Born
1984
Birthplace
BELLEVILLE, ONTARIO
Citizenships
CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
5.0/ 5
Weighted across 2 scored criteria
Designation
Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.
Scorecard
Path A — born on Canadian soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — yes
BELLEVILLE, ONTARIO
Canadian parentage — not scored
No Canadian parents on record
Citizenship on record — not scored
Automatic by birth
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Ontario
Lived in Canada by choice — not scored
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — not scored
Credits filed north of the 49th
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Says so, out loud
Canada claims them back — not scored
Claimed, enthusiastically
Fun fact
Her breakout album 'Let Go' was recorded in New York and LA, but she wrote most of it as a teenager in Greater Napanee, Ontario (population: 5,000).
The verdict
Grew up in small-town Ontario, wrote her first songs in Napanee, and became the face of pop-punk for a generation of Canadian kids who grew up on MuchMusic. She's about as Canadian as it gets — except for that French citizenship she picked up along the way.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
Related files
More from the files: Musician · Ontario
References — en.wikipedia.org