Welcome to Canada

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| name = Welcome to Canada

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| director = John N. Smith

| writer = John N. Smith
Sam Grana

| producer = Sam Grana

| starring =

| cinematography = David De Volpi
Roger Martin
K. Shanmuganathan
Martin Duckworth

| editing = John N. Smith
Martial Éthier
Sam Grana

| music =

| studio = National Film Board of Canada

| released = {{Film date|1989}}

| runtime = 86 minutes

| country = Canada

| language = English

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Welcome to Canada is a 1989 Canadian docufiction film directed by John N. Smith."Looking at society with the eye of an outsider: For John N. Smith, movies have always been 'serious stuff'". The Globe and Mail, March 24, 1989. Loosely based on a real-life incident, the film depicts the interactions of a small community in Newfoundland with a group of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who turn up in the town."John N. Smith's Welcome to Canada". Cinema Canada, November 1989. p. 23. The film's cast includes Charlene Bruff, Madonna Hawkins, Nirmalan Masilamany, Anandprasad Pathanjali, Beverly Power, Francis Power, Rosie Power, Kumar Singam Nadarajah, Murugesu Sivanesan and Sinnakili Baskaran.

The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in 1989,"Festival Frenzy and Other News". Montreal Gazette, July 28, 1989. and was screened at the 1989 Toronto International Film Festival."Film festival to focus on NFB". Toronto Star, August 2, 1989.

Smith received a Genie Award nomination for Best Director at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990."Rundown on the Genie hopefuls". Edmonton Journal, February 14, 1990.