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friends family members: With no birth certificate, he couldn't get identification, a legitimate job or even medical care, according to Vancouver Observer. But a team effort of citizen advocates, a pro bono lawyer, friends and family members, brought together by media attention, altered his plight. Accompanied by his three children, common-law wife and best friend, McGlaughlin affirmed allegiance on Thursday to the country that has refused to recognize him for most of his 61 years.A decision by his anarchist First Nation father and Caucasian mother not to register his birth out of fear he'd end up in a residential school started a life-long bureaucratic tussle. Finally a Canadian, McGlaughlin said he can apply for a Social Insurance Number, health-care card, driver licence, marriage certificate, then travel to British Columbia Great Bear Rainforest to see the spirit bear and California redwood forests — a dream of one of his sons."All my life, yeah, dogs have had more rights," said McGlaughlin. "They enact more laws pertaining to dogs and cats than they do to help stateless people. There my ID. I'm Fido."McGlaughlin doesn't know where or when he was born, only that it was between Rosebud, S.D., and where his maternal grandparents lived in Guelph, Ont., around Jan. 19, 1954, the day he celebrates as his birthday. I've always said I should just go buy a dog tag and wear it around my neck, and there. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.