The first line of inquiry is how little we know about Canadian stage works in the United States.

Quick, what comes to mind? Right now that would be “Come From Away,” the hit Broadway musical about the planes detoured to Newfoundland after 9/11. But after that it’s a jumble involving “The Drowsy Chaperone,” the superstar director Robert Lepage, Cirque du Soleil and its neo-circus legacy, the Stratford Festival — and “Slings & Arrows,” the television series that brilliantly satirized Stratford. Take a deeper dive, and the playwrights Michel Tremblay and Daniel MacIvor may turn up.

Even given the United States’ myopia and reflexive laziness when it comes to opening up to other countries’ cultural exports, the lack of exposure to this northern neighbor’s theater feels odd, especially considering the outsize influence Canada has always had on pop music and comedy in the United States. Admittedly, some of the most dynamic, boundary-pushing Canadian theater has been in French — that language being closely associated with art, identity and politics in Quebec — and overall stage productions can be a bear to move. But we don’t even see American productions of many Canadian works, besides rarities like “Come From Away” or the wonderful Off Broadway musical “Ride the Cyclone.” In view of the steady stream of British imports hitting our shores — some of them epically British, like “The Play That Goes Wrong” — you have to wonder: Why are there not more Canadian shows in New York?

I am obliged to report that a day watching Soulpepper offerings did not provide any answers. The most utterly Canadian offering I caught was “True North,” a mix of songs and poetry aided by projections that aims to delineate the country’s identity. The overall impression was: Brrrr, it must be cold up there, judging by the number of references to snow, ice and hockey. More seriously, one got the feeling of a country proud of its vastness and wildness, but quietly elegiac about these qualities rather than boastful. There was no sense of a Manifest Destiny, which may help explain Canada’s disinterest in asserting superiority.