Sometimes the Universe wants to hand you the biggest free gift ever.

If you have any Canadian family, or have friends that might, this is worth a read. Genealogy isn’t only a surprisingly interesting sideshow — sometimes it unlocks unbelievable optionality capital.

Imagine a passport that the Regime can’t take away even if they don’t like you, or what you say, or who you vote for, or the charities to which you give money. Imagine not having to choose between freedom of speech and freedom of mobility.

That’s what the stakes are, and what the prize is: a Canadian passport.

I never knew my great-great grandparents from Quebec by way of Holyoke, Massachusetts (a shoemaker, and a cotton mill worker) could give me something so incredible, 141 years after they came to America.

Is the same sort of inheritance hiding in your family tree? Maybe it’s worth taking a look.