I don't even know why some native speakers complain about having to deal with broken English when the learner only needs to know a tiny fraction of the language to be intelligible. As long as they have the vocab, grammar is mostly optional.
That was my thought, if Canada came in as the territories are currently divided it wouldn't be good for conservatives in either the house or the Senate.
It's a really weird choice to not have the first season without these modifiers if they're dead set on having them.