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The intrinsic values of Canadians are unique in the world and can only be understood by those who have spent sufficient time in the country, a Federal Court judge has ruled in a decision on residency requirements for naturalized citizens.

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The award of the Man Booker prize to quasi-Canadian author Eleanor Catton — coming on the heels of the unambiguously Canadian Alice Munro winning the Nobel Prize for Literature — again raises the question: What does it mean to be Canadian?

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No, don’t worry. This isn’t some thumb-sucker about multiculturalism or hockey or canoes.

Instead, I’m interested in the narrow and more technical question: What does it mean to be quantifiably Canadian? For all the thumbs that have been sucked, no one has yet come up with a formula.