I think the Canadian issue interesting as well, as I'm quite familiar with UBC. First, Bison is right, UBC is a monster, probably on par with UW. However, in my impression, Canadian universities don't put the emphasis on football and basketball facilities, they would not even be on par with the BSC. UBC plays in a 4,700 seat stadium. In that case, the BSC could be a good place to start.
If the Canadian universities were ever to gain entrance to the NCAA I see several expansion candidates: U British Columbia, U Alberta, U Calgary, Simon Frasure, Regina, and Saskatchewan.
Here is an interesting article about Simon Frasure and UBC about the NCAA.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti...20486/-1/ZONES0
