10 July 2003
Mexico finalizes deal to sell Yucatan to Canada
NHL considers allowing hockey sticks of Mesquite
OTTAWA -- Mexican President Vicente Fox will travel to Ottawa next week
in preparation for the
handover of the Yucatan peninsula to the Canadian government in
November.
This will be the third face-to-face meeting between these leaders since
last year when Canada was the high bidder on eBay for the Mexican states
of Yucatan, Quintana Roo, and portions of Campeche.
It is expected that the first of several new construction projects will
be announced at the meeting in Ottawa. The first project will most
likely be a 100,000 seat ice arena which will be home to the newly
organized Mayans of the National Hockey League.
Details are still being worked out on the name for the new province
though rumors are that the field of contenders has been narrowed to "Yucanada"
and "Canexico." The other two names that had been floated by
the government, "New Mexico" and "New Funland," were rejected
earlier this year by Charles Hatton, Minister of Expansion—this
following a CDN$4.3 million study commissioned by the
Ministry of Information which showed that up to 18% of first-time
holiday travelers would more likely find themselves in Albuquerque or St.
John's than in the new province.
In the resort area of Cancun, local workers have already begun boning up
on Spanadian, the new and soon-to-be third official language of Canada.
A new English-French-Spanadian phrase book is being distributed to taxi drivers and local hotel and restaurant
workers to help them deal with the extraordinary influx of visitors
expected this winter.
According to Jean-Claude Garcia, a local tour operator, most of the
hospitality workers in the area have mastered what they believe will be
the most common phrases: "Buenos dias, eh," "Dos Molson, por favor," and "¿Donde esta el Zamboni?"
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