For this month’s contest, all you have to do is ‘like’ this photo of old money on Facebook. As I publish this post, it’s the top item on One Year, One Canadian’s Facebook page. I’ll let that run until April 15, and then randomly select a winner.

And what does the winner receive? Three business books from the good folks at Douglas and McIntyre. Those books are:

• “Chocolate Wars” by Deborah Cadbury
• “Why Mexicans Don’t Drink Molson” by Andrea Mandel-Campbell
• “The World Is Flat” by Thomas Friedman

One Canadian book out of three ain’t bad, eh? So get your Like on.

I know these early contests have been pretty easy. Fear not, I’ll come up with something more challenging for next month’s category, movies and television. Maybe some kind of CanCon trivia question?

I know almost nothing about the topic.

My wife and I have a trusted financial advisor and RRSPs and sundry other financial assets, but they’re really not, shall we say, a strength of mine. We meet with our money guy a couple of times of year, and generally all I care about is that the lines go up. My wife is far more responsible in these matters.

There’s another reason I’ve been slow writing about this month. In preparation for this month, I connected with my financial advisor to ask how Canadian our current investment mix was. The Blessed Beaver of Upper Canada shined his light on me because, huzzah!, all of our investments are already Canadian.

So, problem solved?

Yes, but that’s not much fun, is it? I plan to give my money guy some money, and ask him to split it in two piles and invest it. For one investment, he’ll invest it in strictly Canadian investments. For the other, he’ll put the money in foreign investments. We’ll check back in along the way, and see how we end up at the end of the year.

Photo by Adam Campbell.