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File No. 167948 · Adjudicated
Kevin O'Leary
Entrepreneur — Dragons' Den, Shark Tank
Born
1954
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
Has never brought it up
Canada claims them back — not scored
No claim lodged
Fun fact
He started SoftKey, the company that made him rich, in a Toronto basement with two partners in 1986.
The verdict
Born in Montreal, but raised itinerantly across Cambodia, Ethiopia, Tunisia, and Cyprus thanks to his stepfather's UN posting — and Canadian television's most reliable source of blunt financial opinions well before Shark Tank exported him south. Started SoftKey out of a Toronto basement before it became a major player in educational software. Born here, world-raised, still very much ours.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
Related files
More from the files: Quebec · Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁
References — en.wikipedia.org