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File No. 823662 · Adjudicated
Corey Hart
Musician — Sunglasses at Night, Boy in the Box, Singles
Born
1962
Birthplace
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
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
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
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 — Quebec
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
Never Surrender went diamond in Canada (1 million copies sold) and his debut album First Offense sold over 16 million copies worldwide.
The verdict
Wore his sunglasses at night all the way to becoming one of Canada's biggest pop stars of the 1980s, with Never Surrender becoming a certified anthem. Still tours and records, and Canadians of a certain age will absolutely belt out his hits at karaoke.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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