Well, the telephone almost won as the "Greatest Canadian Invention" last night. Luckily Insulin won making sure we didn't look silly. The telephone is not a canadian invention. The story of Bell and the telephone is quite tainted with controversy concerning the goings on in the patent office he filed at and the works of Elisha Gray, which were actually in the same patent office a few hours before Bell's. Add to that the fact that Antonio Meucci constructed an electrical acoustic transmission device around 4 years before either of the other men and Bell's claim looks shotty. And even if for some reason you still thought Bell could be said to be the outright inventor of the telephone, he was a Scotsman working in the States when he filed the patent.