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File No. 868832 · Adjudicated
Rufus Wainwright
Musician — Hallelujah (cover), Want One, Opera Verdi
Born
1973
Birthplace
RHINEBECK, U.S.
Citizenships
US / CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
3.5/ 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
RHINEBECK, 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 — Quebec
Lived in Canada by choice — yes
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — yes
Credits filed north of the 49th
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
Says so, out loud
Canada claims them back — not scored
Claimed, enthusiastically
Fun fact
He earned a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Song at fourteen, for a song he performed in the Canadian film Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller.
The verdict
Born in New York, but raised in Montreal by his mother — the Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle — after his parents split when he was three. Dual citizen, Genie-nominated at fourteen for a song in a Canadian film, and a fixture of the Canadian music industry ever since. Raised here, citizen, one parent, lived and worked here: 3.5, Ya No Ya.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
Related files
More from the files: Musician · Quebec
References — en.wikipedia.org