Did you know that....

Canada is officially a bilingual country but only one province officially honours this grand idea - take a bow New Brunswick.

I'm filled with fun stuff like this.

How about another?

We have a "Free Trade Agreement" with the United States combined with "NAFTA" to include Mexico as well as recently signing a treaty with Chile. Yet....

We still have inter-provincial barriers. We still have trade "wars" with each other.

While we're at it a word on the FIFA U-20 World Cup. Did you know Canada is participating? If you didn't you can be excused. Here in Canada we make multiculturalism a matter of policy. What this does is allow people to pay allegiance to every other culture except Canada. Or at the very least make Canada a second choice or an after thought.

Case in point are soccer fans. If given the choice of cheering between Canada or the heritage of a person would Canada prevail? Sadly, my suspicion is that it wouldn't.

Poor Canada so far from God, too far from the Sun, too close to the United States, a single mother to Quebec, a whore to all incoming nationalities and alone to defend its interests.

At least they exceeded ticket sale expectations. Attendance is expected to pass one million. Thus further lending proof that soccer is enormously popular here. We just haven't come up with the right recipe and proper commitment. Hopefully, the MLS sets the continent as a whole on the right path. But this is another story altogether.