The Cockney Columbus Book

I am always interested in books about how Canadians and Americans are different, so I felt like I should throw this one in there, even though it is pretty old and out of date at this point. I found it a year ago on a shelf at a lake house that I rented with some friends (in America). I flipped through it and decided to get it at the library to finish it up. It was written in the 80s, and a puzzlingly large chunk of it is about American investment in Canadian companies and vice versa. With lots of really specific detail about corporate takeovers and stuff. It was a very long, boring chapter...and it is all completely irrelevant now because NAFTA didn't arrive until the 90s. I didn't exactly read that one word for word.
I liked the other chapters better. I enjoyed the little biographical vignettes, and I liked the author's reminiscences about his childhood and his family in Ontario. He is a little too fascinated by the far north, I think, which works against some parts of Canada. He must have made at least a half dozen trips to the Yukon and other extreme northern places, so they come up a lot, while the Maritimes are almost completely absent. It seems like he's maybe never been there. I think if you are going to write a book about "The Canadians" you kind of have to at least make an appearance in New Brunswick or Nova Scotia. At least for a sense of completeness. And honestly, Quebec wasn't in there much either. The Yukon came up more than Quebec. It was like the guy decided to write a whole book about what Canadians are like, but without interviewing anyone beyond people he had already met.
Mainly what I was thinking while reading this was that someone else needs to write a book like this now, because so much has changed. The 80s doesn't seem that far away, but 30 years is a long time.