In 2012, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) implemented a requirement that all aspiring Canadians who wish to take the citizenship test must have an adequate level of English- or French-language skills, defined as Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) 4. The CLB 4 language policy directly and, we argue, problematically links language abilities with the right to citizenship for new immigrants and, relatedly, assumes a deficit conception of literacy. We examine the discourses embedded within the citizenship test study guide "Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship" (2012), the new language requirement policy, and the CIC website to expose how these place problematic restrictions on new immigrants who aspire to become Canadian.