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Introduction Is Canada even real? It’s a question that is being asked with increasing frequency as those outside our borders become aware of our water- proof, see-through, mythically maple-scented currency and our improbably hot prime minister’s assertions that Santa lives here. In an age of Wiki, Google Maps, and #factcheck, how could the very existence of Canada be questioned? And yet, how could a nation built on beaver pelts exist in the same realm as, say, Belgium or Niger?