If the hype video that accompanied Monday’s announcement of a joint World Cup 2026 bid between the USA, Canada and Mexico was anything to go by, the organizers are keeping their options open when it comes to host cities.
Just to recap the Canada section: there’s Ottawa, some mountains in the Rockies, Toronto, Quebec City, Vancouver, Vancouver again and Niagara Falls.
Assuming Canada Soccer are not planning on erecting a 40,000-seater stadium on Clifton Hill any time soon, we can safely assume that an appearance in the video does not equal host-city status. It would seem that is still very much up for grabs, seeing as Victor Montagliani gave literally the vaguest answer possible when asked about venues, and he has until December 2018, after all, before the proposal has to be finalized with his American and Mexican colleagues.