Yes, you read that right! I took my Citizenship Oath this afternoon and am now officially a Canadian citizen.

The citizenship ceremony took place entirely on Zoom, which was an interesting experience, because there were about 80 other people/families in the meeting in total. I don’t know if everyone was from Alberta or if they were all scattered around, but the judge that performed the ceremony was in Montreal, so who knows!

The whole thing took about two and a half hours; most of the time was spent waiting for the clerk to do one-on-one meetings with everyone, during which we had to cut up our Permanent Resident cards on camera. Then we all came together, said the Oath, sang the national anthem, and became Canadians.

(I had to pledge my allegiance to King Charles and all his successors, which was pretty wild.)

So no longer do I live in a foreign country. Canada is my country!