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File No. 270143 · Adjudicated
Louise Arbour
Actor — Governor General-designate of Canada
Born
1947
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
She was the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, making her one of the most influential Canadian legal minds in international law.
The verdict
Born in Montreal, educated at Université de Montréal, and served as a Supreme Court Justice before becoming the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights — she's taken Canadian values of fairness and justice to the world stage. Canada claims her proudly, even when she's busy holding war criminals accountable abroad.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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