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File No. 328669 · Adjudicated
Matthew Perry
Actor — Friends, 17 Again, Ally McBeal
Born
1969
Birthplace
WILLIAMSTOWN, U.S.
Citizenships
US / CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
3.0/ 5
Weighted across 6 scored criteria
Designation
Ya No Ya 🤔Knows that bud → buddy → pal is not an escalation in friendliness.
Scorecard
Path B — not born on Canadian soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — no
WILLIAMSTOWN, U.S.
Canadian parentage — yes
One Canadian parent
Citizenship on record — yes
Held — by descent or naturalisation
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Canada
Lived in Canada by choice — yes
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — no
No Canadian credits on file
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. It carries no weight under either path.
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Has never brought it up
Canada claims them back — not scored
No claim lodged
The verdict
Born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, to an American actor father and a Canadian journalist mother — she was press secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau — Matthew Perry moved to Ottawa as a child and went to school with a young Justin Trudeau. He holds dual citizenship and spent enough of his formative years in Ontario to count. Chandler Bing, Canadian-adjacent. Could this BE any more Canadian?
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
Related files
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References — en.wikipedia.org