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File No. 482374 · Adjudicated
The Weeknd
Musician — After Hours, Blinding Lights, Beauty Behind the Madness
Born
1990
Birthplace
METROPOLITAN TORONTO, 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
METROPOLITAN TORONTO, ONTARIO
Canadian parentage — not scored
No Canadian parents on record
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
Has never brought it up
Canada claims them back — not scored
Claimed, enthusiastically
The verdict
Born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye in Scarborough, Toronto, to Ethiopian immigrant parents, The Weeknd built his career by leaking anonymous R&B tracks online before anyone knew his name — then became one of the biggest artists on earth. He has never forgotten where he came from. Stadium shows in Toronto, Super Bowl halftime, still repping the 416.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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