Canadian!

by Will Wilkinson on April 17, 2009

In Ottawa last night at midnight, the moment I officially became a lifelong Canadian citizen.

That’s Moosehead, I think. 

It’s news!

  • Situation Normal Fu
    "In a little twist of irony, Wilkinson and his American fiancee are also contemplating a foreign adoption."

    Wha, wha, what?!
  • Mmorpg
    Stephen Harper still the PM over there? That guys crazy.
  • I'm from Canada now i'm living in Mexico. Thank you so much for making me feel like I was home. Great blog!
  • David Rotor
    Sorry I missed you ... what pub is that?
  • The Oak.
  • Jonathan
    Are you still in town? Are you planning on going out tonight?
  • Sarah S
    Mazel tov, Will. Do you feel nicer?
  • Paul O'Pinion
    Adoption? Obviously you were exposed to all sides of the "children" debate on this site. If and when it happens, welcome to the club!
    As to your new citizenship, to quote the McKenzie Brothers: "Take off you hoser!"
  • MDM
    Congrats, Will.
    Have you read Joseph Heath's The Efficient Society? As a newly minted Canadian and a Rawlsekian, you should.
  • I haven't, but as it happens I recently did a Bloggingheads with Heath about his new book, which should air soon.
  • Gordon Welch
    Welcome to the club!
  • Travis
    Congratulations. Are you planning on moving north, or just keeping your options open?
  • Sigivald
    Lifelong? Sure, that's what you say now, Mr. Fickle.
  • Maybe now you can explain to us that "living tree" theory of law the Canucks like to talk about and some gringos envy. I saw a living tree come out of someone's lung on the news, but I don't think that's it.
  • richcromwell
    The French is a nice touch.

    Now that you're officially Canadian, can you explain why ham becomes Canadian bacon when it's sliced and used as a pizza topping? Inquiring minds want to know.
  • Craig
    Citizen. Screw that!
    You are now a subject of the Her Majesty the Queen.
    And we have much better beer than Moosehead, btw.
  • What is that supposed to mean?
  • Hey congratulations, fellow Canadian.

    Really. I'm glad you made the news as well. That's pretty neat.

    Hope you visit often.
  • K Mullet
    We need more Cato in Canada! Now if we can only disenfranchise Naomi Klein it might bring balance to the force.
  • Cool Cal
    Sorry, you just mentioned Miss Klein, sending me into my predictable apoplectic seizure of fury.

    It just occurred to me that most young'uns only know Milton Friedman - who he is, what he's done, what he said - from The Shock Doctrine. Indeed, many older folks only know him from that book as well, cause you know, it was a NYT bestseller, and she was on Colbert. That's sad.
  • richcromwell
    If the current recession doesn't prove the permanent income hypothesis and the psychology of recessions, I don't know what does. People with steady incomes and good jobs aren't spending b/c of "this economy." It's tragically sad.

    The wife and I are doing our part, though!
  • I hope you love your freedoms now.
  • I'm pretty sure that "as an adult, I became a lifelong X" can't be right.
  • Such is the strange nature of legal facts. As far as the government concerned, I drew my first breath into Canadian lungs.
  • In that case, you're going to owe a whopping back tax bill!
  • I've never lived or worked in my homeland, which does not tax the incomes of citizens abroad (hence the move to try to kneecap the growth of citizens in Hong Kong, Lebanon, and U.S. with new first generation born abroad limit, etc.). And I own no property here. So I'm in the clear.
  • Cut yer hair, ya damn hippie!
  • Austin Kennedy
    Glad Rachelle and I could be there when you became one of "us".
  • Ellen
    Hi, this happened to me too ... I've only been a US citizen ... will this affect our social security or taxes?
  • richard lilley
    Are you not now technically a subject (in its objective sense) of the Queen of Canada a frightfully interesting elderly Anglo-German old school fully functional anachronism: aka Elizabeth II by the Grace of God etc etc?

    I'm all for recolonising the America's one intellectual at a time.... we need all the help we can get over here so congratulations, and thanks for the splendid blogging, from this, republican, Brit.
  • Craig
    Some reading matter on our founding, just so you don't fall for the idea that of Canada's Red Tory-social democratic political culture:
    http://www.amazon.com/Canadas-Founding-Debates-...
  • saeran
    Yes. I totally expect more posts about Canadian news. Please?
  • Dan
    I know I'm overextrapolating here, but your new Canadian citizenship has reduced your blogging drastically. You need to return to the workaholic States and get back to work so that I have something to read tomorrow while [i]I'm[/i] at work.
  • Greg N.
    Are Canadians not allowed to blog or something?
  • Mazel Tov!
  • John Meredith
    Where's Wilkinson? He hasn't been forced to join the Mounties or something, has he?

    Maybe he is working on that book, at last.
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