Quote Originally Posted by Pierre Dénommée View Post

At least 40 FIDE rated players with an average above 2000, that will be hard to get in Canada.
The top section of the Quebec Open usually has over 40 2000+ players (in 2018 and 2019, there were exactly 40).
Make a one-section Canadian Open (or any major event in a large city)(rather than something like an Open section and a U2200 section), and you will easily get over 40 2000+ players.