30-06-2018 15:00 via ottawacitizen.com

Immigrants talk about when they 'started to feel Canadian'

Shabana Baig says she’s always surprised when people ask her where she is from.
“I say Ottawa. And they say ‘no, I mean back home.'”
Baig is originally from Pakistan, but has lived in Ottawa for 21 years. She raised her four children here.
“In my heart, I am Canadian,” she says. “I always think, why are they asking me this question?
“My kids grew up here, they went to the school here, we worked in the community. But still they ask.”
She
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