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File No. 407912 · Adjudicated
Ryan Gosling
Actor — The Notebook, La La Land, Barbie
Born
1980
Birthplace
LONDON, 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
LONDON, ONTARIO
Canadian parentage — not scored
Both parents Canadian
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
He was a classmate of Justin Timberlake on The Mickey Mouse Club but he's the one who stayed Canadian.
The verdict
Born in London, Ontario, raised in Cornwall — Ryan Gosling is the most aggressively, unapologetically Canadian person to ever play a Ken doll. Studied at the Lester B. Pearson School for the Arts in Burlington, then went full Canadian-abroad while never losing the citizenship. All five points. Give'r.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org