When I returned from the UK back in 2006, my Canadian passport was out of date so I used my UK passport. I did get some grief from the CBSA people because essentially I was treated as a British citizen, so they wanted to know the purpose of my visit and that sort of thing. I explained that I am Canadian and they asked me to prove that I was a permanent resident of Canada and not just a citizen. My UK passport does list my birthplace (Calgary).
I offered to show my license with my home address - not good enough. Canadian credit cards? Nope. Student ID card? Nope. I was told that I would need to show a landed immigrant card (not applicable to me) or a Canadian passport.
Eventually they relented after a bit of a grilling from the CBSA guy, but it was certainly an odd experience standing in the airport of the city of my birth and where I have lived my entire life, and contemplating not being allowed in! They strongly suggested that I renew my Canadian passport and use it for returning to Canada, which I have since done.
Don't take this as the gospel because I'm not sure if I got an overly zealous agent who just wanted to make things difficult. But yes, I did get back in. But no, it wasn't as easy as it should have been.
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