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File No. 543470 · Adjudicated
Matt Johnson
Director — BlackBerry, The Dirties, Operation Avalanche
Born
1985
Birthplace
TORONTO, 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
TORONTO, 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
Says so, out loud
Canada claims them back — not scored
Claimed, enthusiastically
Fun fact
BlackBerry was shot largely in Toronto standing in for Waterloo, and Johnson himself plays the company's volatile co-CEO.
The verdict
Born and raised in Toronto, and the guy who turned the BlackBerry's rise and fall into one of the funniest business movies of the decade — mostly shot in and around his own city. Born, raised, five points.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org