The connection between bids and the Canadian Open is that in the pre-online AGM days the AGM was at the Canadian Open and it was in the AGM that national events were awarded.

Events not awarded at the Annual General Meeting may under the Handbook be awarded by the national Executive.

Frankly I would be delighted if the volume of good bids was such we already had all events awarded for 2014 and were now working on 2015 bids! Wouldn't that be a nice "problem"?