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File No. 366340 · Adjudicated
Margaret Atwood
Author — The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye, Alias Grace
Born
1939
Birthplace
OTTAWA, ONTARIO
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
OTTAWA, ONTARIO
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 — Ontario
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
Claimed, enthusiastically
The verdict
Born in Ottawa, raised in various parts of Ontario and Quebec, Margaret Atwood is Canada's national literary treasure and the author of The Handmaid's Tale — which, depending on the news cycle, feels either prophetic or current. Still very Canadian, still very brilliant, still living in Toronto. Five points and a Governor General's Award.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org