Yes, we were a little concerned about the lack of maple leafs as well! I talked to the company and they said the only difference between the US and CDN version is that the CDN version doesn’t have the window side panel and the US version will be available in White. Basically they are just limiting what we will have retailed here. Not a huge fan of that kind of limitation and for the future when they try and make something sound special by branding it “Canadian Version” maybe have something Canadian specific about it rather then just limiting what is available for us.

I don’t see why you couldn’t the slot is there just the ability to mount it would be a little tricky, also it’s a single height slot which limits what you could do there. This isn’t a windowed version of the case either so the side mount would only be useful if you purchase the window panel separately.