Canada will compete in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest in Bulgaria.
CBC/Radio-Canada, the Canadian national broadcaster, was handed a route to compete after it last week gained full member status of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which organizes the singing competition.
The announcement comes on Canada Day, which celebrates the founding of the Canadian Confederacy in 1867, and means Canada is the first new country to join the Eurovision Song Contest since Australia in 2015.
Canada will join the competition at the Semi-Final stage next year.
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