What World Rugby’s Romania-Spain ruling means for Canada

Where to start on yesterday’s news that World Rugby has decided to punt Romania, Spain and Belgium from Rugby World Cup 2019 qualifying, thereby handing automatic qualification to Russia and a lifeline to a to-date woeful Germany?
The ruling itself? The claims, and follow-up claims, made by Spain and Romania? The question of why World Rugby doesn’t have a simple database showing all players who have been registered (and capped) by other unions?
Nah, let’s begin with how the pun