Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Canadian expatriates in foreign political positions


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The result was delete. Michig (talk) 18:06, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

List of Canadian expatriates in foreign political positions

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Uncited article of trivial intersection. If someone holds a political office in one country, they can hardly be considered an "expatriate". Their birth in Canada (or any other state) is non-defining. TM 16:38, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 16:56, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 16:56, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 16:56, 20 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment. The complementary category was also nominated for deletion. postdlf (talk) 17:40, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. As funny as I think the wording on the article's title is, Bakazaka raises fair and excellent points. The premise's too vague to really even work as an article without massive changes. &#8213; Matthew J. Long -Talk-☖  03:12, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * woops, I pinged the wrong person. I meant TM. I just looked over the article and my point still stands. 3 Canadian-born persons/Canadians became head of state. That is not saying much.. &#8213; Matthew J. Long  -Talk-☖  03:15, 21 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. This doesn't only include people who were born in Canada but became politicians elsewhere, but also includes people (e.g. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga) who were born elsewhere and then lived in Canada for a while before moving back home and becoming politicians in their native countries — which is even less relevant as a research topic than birthplace is. Similar content was tried in the past for "people born in [Canadian province] who became politicians in different Canadian provinces they weren't native to", but was deleted as non-defining — and that pertains here for the same reasons. Bearcat (talk) 20:42, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete for above, and the fact there is not notable coverage of the specified as a group. --  No COBOL  (talk) 13:43, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note that we have a similarly defined List of Canadian expatriate soccer players.E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:42, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete for failing to be a coherent group. Canada has a right to be proud that it granted political refuge to Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga when he needed it.  Canada has a claim to Oswald West, Governor of Oregon, who was born in Canada but emigrated to Oregon when he was a toddler.  A clutch of American governors on the list and one Governor of Queensland have more or less this biography.  They are emigrants form Canada, not ex-pats.  Then  there are the Lordly reminders that Canada was part of the British Empire, chaps like Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, born in a town with the profoundly Canadian name of Maple, Ontario, he did what successful colonials sometimes do: he moved to London.  Gino Bucchino, on the other hand, as born in Canada where he has lived his entire life, he practices medicine in Toronto and is "the overseas member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies for North America and Central America."  I'm not sure that there are any expatriates in this list, in the common sense of the term.  I am sure that they do not form a coherent group.  The ones in the list who are emigrated from Canada and went on to become governors and legislators in their new countries are a coherent group.  But they are not "expatriates."E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:42, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete This list of expatiates is quite vague and for the purpose of preventing spam should be deleted. PlotHelpful (talk) 14:52, 27 January 2019 (UTC)


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