Byrdie Funk had what some would call a quintessential, small-town Canadian upbringing.
At two months old she moved from Mexico with her Canadian parents to a farming community in southern Manitoba. She learned to skate on a backyard pond and trudged between snowdrifts to school, where she would stand with fellow students to sing the national anthem before class.
She used her Canadian passport to travel to South Africa, toting a suitcase sporting the maple leaf, and was later married at a historic trading post on the banks of Winnipeg's Red River.
But earlier this year the 36-year-old woman's life was upended when she received a letter from Citizenship and Immigration Canada informing her she was no longer a Canadian citizen.
