with several Canadians there and found that they think very much like folks in Washington, Oregon and Northern California...very diverse and culturally open to others...wouldn't be hard for them to imagine 'assimilating' as one entity (just for fun)...also, we talked about Alberta being very much akin to Texas/Oklahoma, etc....didn't include Saskatchewan in the brief discussion, but there is a similar parallel with Kansas/Iowa...kind of remarkable how our two countries have geo-political similarities.