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Please No Smiling

October 15, 2008 – 6:49 pm | 28 Comments | 0 Read this

I’m apply­ing for Cana­dian cit­i­zen­ship. Finally. I meet all the require­ments: I have been in Canada for a min­i­mum of two years and I lived there for at least 1,095 days for the last three years. I haven’t been charged or con­victed of any­thing. I speak French and Eng­lish. I’m that close to be Cana­dian… minus the one-year cit­i­zen­ship application’s pro­cess­ing time.