Drake

Musician — Scorpion, God's Plan, Views

Born

1986

Birthplace

TORONTO, ONTARIO

Citizenships

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 soil

I. Origin

Born on Canadian soil

TORONTO, ONTARIO

Canadian parentage

No Canadian parents on record

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Ontario

Lived in Canada by choice

Residency on record as an adult

Worked or filmed in Canada

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

Says so, out loud

Canada claims them back

Claimed, enthusiastically

The verdict

Born Aubrey Drake Graham in Toronto, raised on Weston Road before his family later moved to Forest Hill, Drake attended Vaughan Road Academy and Degrassi: The Next Generation before becoming the most commercially successful rapper alive. He has made Toronto the most name-dropped Canadian city in hip-hop history. Still very much from the 416. The city thanks him. Sort of.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable