# Canada issues passport to Santa Claus **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 20, 2013, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-issues-passport-to-santa-claus/676857 "2013-12-20T23:12:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-issues-passport-to-santa-claus/676857/1 "2013-12-20T23:12:49Z")
[From the Globe and Mail](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-issues-santa-claus-a-passport/article16072973/) > [@](#): > > The Harper government has issued Santa a Canadian passport – a lighthearted Christmas stunt that comes weeks after it served noticed [sic] it would lay claim to the North Pole as part of an international bid for seabed riches in Arctic… > > The event was primarily intended to promote a new generation of ultra-secure Canadian passports rather than open a new, albeit fictional front in the battle for the Pole. Suuure it was. When the implacably-polite stormtroopers of the Canadian Hegemony come swarming down from the Pole, we’ll know what’s _really_ going on… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-issues-passport-to-santa-claus/676857/2 "2013-12-20T23:21:48Z")
That is indeed interesting. It does sound like a bit of lighthearted fluff, but the underlying message is not all that lighthearted at all. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-issues-passport-to-santa-claus/676857/3 "2013-12-20T23:32:15Z")
Sounds like [we can expect](http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1642905,00.html) a new “Cold War” (so to speak) between Santa Claus and [Ded Moroz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moroz) (who I must admit does have a much more badass name).