The more I think of it, the biggest problem a Canadian bid for the WC has is this whole discussion of stadiums.
While it is interesting and healthy to have the discussion, the fact is we are like a contortionist twisting ourselves into a pretzel.....just to, maybe, get to the bare minimum criteria....and at that we don't even know where the billions (how many we don't know) of required money will come from and we don't know what we would do with the current tenants in those stadiums.
Inevtibably, we are bidding against the other two CONCACF nations capable of hosting the tournament. One of those submitted a bid for 2022 which included 23 stadiums in 18 cities(Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis. Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, Tampa and Washington, D.C.) all of which have stadiums in place ready to go (no cost...greater certainty of execution to FIFA), only one tenant who would be playing at that time to displace (Sounders) and they can do that and leave out so many more cities/stadiums that would make what we come up with look not so good (like Soldier Field in Chicago as an example.....or the new {will be there by then} 49ers stadium in the Bay area)....and the smallest of those stadiums holds 66,500......the list of stadiums they considered and rejected would be capable of setting World Cup attendance records!
I know that the one thing we have going for us over, both, USA and Mexico is that they have already hosted....but by 2022, 1994 will be a "long time ago"......28 years.....4 years less than the gap between German world Cups.
That is if it is even deemed to be time to come back to CONCACAF?
I would be more inclined to think FIFA will be ready for another African adventure by then.
Should we investigate/try? Sure, nothing ventured nothing gained.....should we expect to get them....not unless we are willing to spend a whack of money to get our stadia far beyond the minimum criteria AND (i would suspect) have some plan in place for a national league of our own (has any country ever hosted the World Cup without this? Is USA 1994 not the reason we have MLS?).