The real origin is rather different: the Iroquois root “Kanata” (town, settlement). However, this imaginative version serves to highlight an ironic contrast: far from “nothing there”, Canada has just about everything. Two oceans, incredible wealth and human resources, a competiti-ve and growing infrastructure market, a fantastic economy at its sou-thern border... It’s the only country which combines French and Anglo-Saxon roots, as well as its native peoples and the rest of its global immi-gration. A country that’s diverse, tolerant, dynamic... and a pioneer