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File No. 586441 · Adjudicated
Simu Liu
Actor — Kim's Convenience, Shang-Chi
Born
1989
Birthplace
HARBIN, CHINA
Citizenships
CHINA / 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
HARBIN, CHINA
Canadian parentage — no
No Canadian parents on record
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 — 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
Has never brought it up
Canada claims them back — not scored
No claim lodged
Fun fact
He was laid off from his accounting job at Deloitte in April 2012 after nine months. Nine years later he was the lead of a Marvel movie.
The verdict
Born in Harbin, China, raised in Mississauga from age five. Worked as an accountant at Deloitte, got laid off, and pivoted to acting almost on a dare — a decade later he's Shang-Chi. Citizen, raised here, lived and worked here: real connections, just not the birth certificate. Ya no ya.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org