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File No. 528949 · Adjudicated

Monty Hall

TV Host — Let's Make a Deal

Born

1921

Birthplace

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA

Citizenships

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 soil

I. Origin

Born on Canadian soil

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA

Canadian parentage

No Canadian parents on record

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Manitoba

Lived in Canada by choice

Residency on record as an adult

Worked or filmed in Canada

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

Says so, out loud

Canada claims them back

Claimed, enthusiastically

Fun fact

The famous 'Monty Hall problem' in probability theory was named after his game show dilemma of whether to switch doors — though Hall himself always maintained the puzzle's math didn't actually match how Let's Make a Deal really worked.

The verdict

Born in Winnipeg and educated at the University of Manitoba before heading south to become one of television's most recognizable faces. Though he spent most of his career in the States hosting Let's Make a Deal, he never forgot his prairie roots, eh.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable