{"id":2337,"date":"2010-10-23T13:03:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T17:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2010-10-23T13:06:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T17:06:22","slug":"its-a-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2337","title":{"rendered":"It’s a plane…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>t’s a plane, it’s a bird, no, it’s a new Canadian citizen.\"\"<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

So on October 20th of 2010 (20-10-2010, which is a highly remarkable set of numbers if I might say so), I became a Canadian citizen after having been living here now for 10 years. To celebrate that, I was featured on the CBC as well, a story you’ll find around here<\/a>. Pay attention fooks because now you’ll finally discover what real Dutch people look like. Oh, wait, I already revealed that on the right here…\n<\/p>\n

The event in Saint John was officially hosted by the CBC and despite the fact that it was a fairly underexposed event, it was attended by heavy-weights like the mayor of Saint John, Ivan Court<\/a> (who had an excellent straight-forward speech about the economical value of immigrants), NB’s own Harry Forestell<\/a> and an RCMP constable in full ceremonial dress. There were a host of other media people present, I saw the people from the regional newspaper around<\/a> (I missed an opportunity to make a photo of one of the photographers). But mostly, this was about the immigrants who became Canadians: there were 62 of us from the different continents and countries.\n<\/p>\n

As a new Canadian to fellow Canadians, stop drinking that Molson and drink real beer like, uh, Moosehead or something. Additionally, from now on, I won’t call your favourite sport ‘ice-hockey’ but just ‘hockey’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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