The Canadians Have Let Me Into Their Club...

I was born in Canada, but have lived most of my life in Australia. A few years ago, an unfolding constitutional crisis in Australia's parliament made me realise that "being born in Canada" meant that I was, technically, still a Canadian citizen. Up until then, I'd always been told that no, I was not really a Canadian.

Canada has also recently passed a law that any Canadian dual-citizen wishing to enter Canada, must do so on a Canadian passport. My Australian passport wouldn't work (though as I was born in London, Ontario, they'd probably have had to be super-observant to pick up on this fact, since my Australian passport simply says "Born in: London", without naming the country).

So, given that I'd like to visit Canada some day, and not really wanting to be smuggling myself into Canada on an incorrect passport, I applied for a Canadian passport. It arrived in the mail yesterday.



Now I just have to wait for this whole COVID thing to blow over, so I can actually use it.