Drake was still known as Aubrey.
Stephen Harper wasn't even Prime Minister yet.
We've got a new hunky PM now, but before that, didn't it seem like Harper was running Canada forever? But nope, in 2005, our country was still led by Liberal Party leader Paul Martin.
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Canada had just legalized same-sex marriage.
The Civil Marriage act was introduced in parliament on February 1, 2005 and became law on July 20, 2005. (It only took America another 10 years to get its act together.)
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Justin Bieber was only 11 years old.
We still had another two years before he uploaded his first video to YouTube, and another four years before he introduced that infamous hairstyle to the world.
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Drake was still on Degrassi.
And he was still going by the name Aubrey Graham. (Wheelchair Jimmy 4EVA!)
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