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File No. 008870 · Adjudicated
Jann Arden
Musician — Insensitive, Could I Be Your Girl, Jann Arden
Born
1962
Birthplace
CALGARY, ALBERTA
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
CALGARY, ALBERTA
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 — Alberta
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
She voiced the character of Mama Heffalump in the Canadian-produced Pooh's Heffalump Movie.
The verdict
Born in Calgary and still living in Alberta decades later, she's about as rooted in Canadian soil as you can get. Her music career launched from Canadian stages, her sitcom was quintessentially Canadian, and she's never pretended to be anything other than a prairie girl who made good. Canada claims her proudly, and she returns the favour.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org