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Portrait
File No. 963434 · Adjudicated
MacKenzie Porter
Musician — Nobody's Born with a Broken Heart, Coming Home
Born
1990
Birthplace
MEDICINE HAT, 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
MEDICINE HAT, 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
Before her country career took off, she had an acting career too — small film and TV roles before she pivoted fully to music in Nashville.
The verdict
Born and raised in Medicine Hat, Alberta, and one of the more successful Canadian country exports of the last decade, with four Canada Country number ones. Born, raised, five points.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org