Canada not part of the G8?

I’ve read some pretty wild and crazy things on Canada on behalf of Italian journalists in all these years that I’ve been living in Italy. Some examples? That we have “states” (instead of provinces), or that the capitol of Québec is Montréal (it's Québec City the last time I looked), or that Pamela Anderson Lee is American (wasn’t she born in Vancouver?). Here’s something from today’s Corriere della Sera, Italy’s no. 1 national newspaper, on the upcoming G8 Summit in Russia (I worked at the totally disastrous one in Genoa in 2001): It talks about the G8 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Moscow and mentions the presence of the US, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan (plus Russia), the EU and Austria (as rotating president of the EU). But there’s no mention whatsoever of Canada!!!