I'm a Mounty...

Well Tim isn't a mounty but we took a picture with one because Tim is a Canadian citiizen!! We are sooo excited and it feels soooo good to be done with the process. He started the application a year ago and in February he went downtown and wrote the test. In preparation for the test he quizzed me on my knowledge. For starters I am terrible with dates and am not sure I would be capable of passing. The good news is that Tim is a smart cookie and passed with flying colours. The unfortunate news is that there was an issue somewhere with the paper work and he was unable to obtain his citizenship in February. Although he was upset and very frustrated because it felt like a continual dead end, he persevered and finally managed to sort the issue out. As it turns out there was just a misunderstanding and once they removed the restriction he was ready to go for ctizenship.

Tim was sworn in during citizenship week so the ceremony was held at the CBC news radio station. We had to wait outside til they were ready for us. We were then brought in groups of 10. It was very odd but in the end everyone made it inside and Tim recieved his citizenship test.
The ceremony was very nice. A judge and a rude politician spoke. They were then sworn in. They had to say the oat in English and French. Let's just that the French was less than pretty and just sounded like mumbles. They then walked across the stage and received their citizenship! It was so exciting. I was a little sad because Mayor Nenshi couldn't make it but all in all the ceremony was a success.

Congratulations Tim! I am so proud of you for becoming a Canadian citizen. I look forward to the future and never letting your Wright family forget that you stuck here forever now!

 

You know you're a Canadian when.....

• You're not offended by the term "Homo Milk".
• You eat chocolate bars instead of candy bars.
• You drink pop, not soda.  
• You can drink legally while still a teen.
• You talk about the weather with strangers and friends alike.
• You don't know or care about the fuss with Cuba, it's just a cheap place to travel with good cigars and no Americans.
• When there is a social problem, you turn to your government to fix it instead of telling them to stay out of it.
• You're not sure if the leader of your nation has EVER had sex and you really don't want to know if he has!
• You get milk in bags as well as cartons and plastic jugs.
• Pike is a type of fish, not some part of a highway.
• You drive on a highway, not a freeway.
• You have Canadian Tire money in your kitchen drawers.  
• You know that Mounties "don't always look like that.
• You use a red pen on your non-Canadian textbooks and fill in the missing 'u's from labor, honor, and color.
• You know the French equivalents of "free", "prize", and "no sugar added", thanks to your extensive education in bilingual cereal packaging.
• You can do all the hand actions to Sharon, Lois and Bram's "Skin-a-ma-rinky-dinky-doo" opus.
• You can eat more than one maple sugar candy without feeling nauseous.  
• You know what a toque is.
• You have some memento of Doug and Bob.
• Back bacon and Kraft Dinner are two of your favorites food groups.