"We wish Mr. Claus all the best in his Christmas Eve duties again this year. And rest assured, as a Canadian citizen living in Canada's North, he can re-enter Canada freely once his trip around the world is complete," said Jason Kenney, Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister, in 2010, just two years after he first declared that Santa Claus and his wife, Mrs. Claus, were being offered Canadian citizenship (via National Post Canada).
As Harlan York & Associates reports, the region known as the North Pole that Santa is famously known to occupy 364 days out of the year "lies in an area between Russia, Norway, Canada, the United States, and Denmark." However, Canada's Kenney was the first political entity to offer the rosy-cheeked reindeer-tamer a place to officially call home. Canadians are famously reputed to be immensely hospitable and welcoming, so we can rest assured knowing that Mr. and Mrs. Claus are in good year-round company among their fellow countrymen.
