but how many people play hockey around the world?
i agree the england team is playing shit currently in the world cup, in qualifying we only lost 1 match and scored more goals than any other european team. england are ranked 8th on the world and canada 63rd. and before you say it i just checked and football has more registered players in canada than any other sport.
you also like your motor racing in canada, two brits lead the f1 championship and are also the last two world champions.
as far as music, britain has produced some of the best acts in almost every genre since the sixties with only the US close. beatles, stones, zepplin, queen, elton john, sex pistols, the clash etc etc. canada has celine dion
britain throughout history has made more inventions and discovered more things than any other country in history. the jet engine, radar, the first computer, the www the list goes on. then we have groundbreaking people like newton, darwin, shakespear, hawking etc. canada has brian adams and jim carrey and when i tried to look up famous canadian inventions on wikipedia i got a 404
i haven't got time to attack the rest of your list, but you get my point.