santos competed at the 2013 edition of miss universe canada held in toronto where she was hailed 1st runner up to denise garrido. however, 24 hours later, it was later revealed that she originally won due to a typo error in the ratings of the top 5 entries, which afterwards, significantly impacted the final results of the competition. a week later, she was officially crowned as the new miss universe canada 2013 in her hometown, calgary, alberta. this is the first instance of this type of error in the 11 years that beauties of canada (boc) has produced the miss universe canada pageant. garrido has actually ranked as third runner-up.