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File No. 680785 · Adjudicated
Jim Treliving
Entrepreneur — Boston Pizza co-owner, Dragons' Den
Born
1941
Birthplace
VIRDEN, MANITOBA
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
VIRDEN, MANITOBA
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 — Manitoba
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
His son Brad Treliving is the general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The verdict
Born in small-town Manitoba and built a business empire from Tim Hortons franchises to Boston Pizza, he's been a fixture on Dragons' Den since 2006, proving you can take the guy out of the prairies but you can't take the prairies out of the guy. Canadians know him as the straight-shooting Dragon who actually understands small business because he lived it.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org