From crumpets to Timbits: James Mullinger on becoming a Canadian

Two of James Mullinger’s proudest moments are his 2016 and 2018 performances at TD Station in Saint John, N.B., where he played to a stadium packed with 5,000 people. (Submitted: James Mullinger)

On a rainy afternoon at the Tipsy Muse Cafe in downtown Fredericton, the comedian James Mullinger tested new material gathered on his long road to Canadian citizenship as an immigrant from Great Britain.

Sitting in front of a bay window, he sips an Americano and recalls the citizenship test questions “that no Canadian can ever answer.”