Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wishes you all to know that he is not Canadian.
If you never knew that the potential Republican presidential candidate was a Canadian citizen, that’s OK. He didn’t either, at least not until The Dallas Morning News reported last August that since Cruz was born to an American mother on Canadian soil, he could claim dual citizenship. Out of embarrassment, dislike of maple syrup, or perhaps wishing to avoid a birther scandal of his own, Sen. Cruz did the only honorable, American thing and moved as quickly as possible to renounce his birthplace and the citizenship which it had so graciously offered him.
Over the last nine months, Cruz has been rapidly trying to distance himself from his Canadian roots (as if moving to Texas wasn’t enough). As he said then, “Nothing against Canada, but I’m an American by birth and as a U.S. senator, I believe I should be only an American.”
The process of becoming non-Canadian comes directly from the annals of the bureaucratic state. Upon realization that he could just as well sing “O Canada,” watch hockey and run for the Canadian Parliament as stand for the “Star-Spangled Banner,” root for football and run for President, Cruz hired a lawyer.
The Canadians were so kind as to send him a formal certificate of renunciation, which stated that his non-canuckness was effective May 14. In short, they understand (or comprennent), in both English and French.
Via the Morning News:
