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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 co-founder Douglas Fregin, the company's third man.
The verdict
Born in Toronto and raised in Mississauga, 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 home province. Born here, raised here, five points.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
Related files
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References — en.wikipedia.org