15 Canadian things America should trade for to form a pop culture super team

5. Pat Sajak for Alex Trebek

Alex Trebek is more Canadian than almost anyone else. He’s not flashy about it, but if you watched some of the more recent episodes of Jeopardy!, the long-running American trivia show, then you’ll know. Canada celebrated its sesquicentennial (that’s the country’s 150th anniversary), prompting Trebek to wear a very Canadian jersey on his show.

If Trebek’s Canadian-ness wasn’t already apparent, then it should be obvious once you learn that he was born in Ontario. He eventually went to school at the University of Ottawa and even worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for a time. He began his television hosting career in Canada, but moved to the U.S. for the 1984 premiere of Jeopardy! Trivia nuts since have rejoiced nearly every weeknight.

The Chicago-born Pat Sajak is nothing to sneeze at, though I am currently proposing trading him off to the great white north. He’s the host of Wheel of Fortune, which often airs alongside Jeopardy! Sajak’s show has been running since 1982. They’re the word-puzzling, problem-solving duo of U.S. evening TV. They even traded places in 1997, for an April Fool’s Day prank that surely induced some serious confusion for a few minutes.

This is all to say that there’s nothing obviously wrong with Sajak or Wheel of Fortune. And, to be entirely fair, Trebek became a naturalized American citizen in 1998. But wouldn’t it be nice to officially claim Trebek as part of United States pop culture? We’ll even let him continue to vehemently defend the much-maligned Canadian geese.