best and discriminatory at worst, the immigration office stood its ground with a new theory. According to the National Post, the immigration office argued that Scott’s father, at the time of her birth, was not yet a Canadian citizen — no one was. As the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism told Scott, “[soldiers like her father] were not legally Canadian citizens. They didn’t have citizenship. They were [British] subjects … They would have regarded themselves as subjects. Everyone was.”

Scott is not alone — not by any means. A website dedicated to regaining the lost citizenship of these people, LostCanadian.com, asserts that there are thousands of people in similar predicaments. Many of them were un-lost in 2009, when the Canadian Parliament passed another reform aimed at closing theloophole, but that bill was incomplete, leaving Scott and others as people without a country. Officially, that is.

Bonus fact : On March 1, 1781, the American colonies adopted the Articles of Confederation, a document creating a “perpetual Union” among the colonies called “The United States of America.” All thirteen colonies were a party to the Articles of Confederation, but the Articles allowed for expansion. But unlike the Constitution, which lays out the framework for new states to join the Union, the Articles of Confederation were more specific. Article 11 stated that “Canada acceding to this confederation, and adjoining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same,