Dude, I have met Sharon Hampson (who was one of the writers of the song) and she sang it at the summer camp I worked at when I was a teenager. Her kids were campers and probably later staff there. Google + not more than 2 degrees of separation to any Canadian = I love the internets.

You know, I was in a training class a couple weeks ago, and the instructor was from Ottawa. I was tempted to start throwing names out there to test the "Canadian 2 degrees of separation" theory, but the opportunity didn't come up.