That's kind of what would draw me to it - to further the university metaphor, the Canadian system superficially looks like the American one with some random British bits, but the more you look the more you realize huge underlying differences in attitude and emotional attachment. (the school as someplace you went to learn stuff, vs the school as a major identity marker and nexus for emotional attachment, for example . . .)

Where I get super-hesitant is the part where to do it without dealing with First Nations would be very erasing, but I'm not . . . entirely sure there EXISTS a way to respectfully and non-hugely-problematically integrate HPian worldbuilding with a FN-worldview/viewpoint. And I'm definitely not sure I, as a mostly-white definitely-outsider chick, could be the one to do it. /random