CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Captain Kirk had a Commodore PET in his living room. That thing was centuries old, and you have the nerve to tell me he's not a gigantic nerd?

@tessarakt It's a formal recognition of citizenship having been valid all along, basically. But the burden is on you to prove your claim. The further back it goes, the harder that gets, of course. It's easiest if you have a living parent or grandparent who is a Canadian citizen, but dead works too.

Now, Canada is no paradise. It's as flawed as any nation. But it's also a functioning democracy, with a government led by people who actually know what they're doing -- fascism has little power here. Life here can be very hard at times, for many reasons, economic and social and geographical, but it's hard in ways that feel to me more fair than those in the US.

I'm not telling you to move. That's for you to decide, if you're able. I'm telling you that you are allowed to have as many citizenships as countries that will claim you, and we want to claim you.

Can you prove that one of your direct ancestors was a Canadian citizen? Congratulations, you may well be entitled to Canadian citizenship yourself. Not by immigration, but by registration.

I highly encourage my trans and queer followers who live in the US and have the option to claim Canadian citizenship by blood do so.