Something I found funny today

Some time ago, the precise moment of which escapes me, I signed up for regular emails from the Conference Board of Canada. Their missives are not frequent and I occasional take a side-long glance at them, wonder how anyone/everyone studies the economy and then go onto the next page of emails to answer. Yet, one factoid that always seem to pop up, in those interminable assessments of assessing and ranking cities and countries, is Canada's relative poor scores on innovation.