Open this photo in gallery: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives to the EU-Canada leaders meeting at the European Council building, in Brussels, on Feb. 12.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press Not long after I moved to Italy a decade and a half ago, I struck up a conversation with a Roman woman – I forget her occupation, but think she was a lawyer – that went from friendly to shockingly amusing in a couple of minutes. She told me she had always wanted to visit Canada “to see all the kangaroos,” assuming that the beasts lived in our wide open Prairies, as...