Ron Wanttaja wrote:

I wonder what one could do with a canard if you eliminated the need to have
the main wing stall before the canard?

Canards with AOA limiters (or without) were at least for a while
the 'flavor of the month' in fighters. See Eurofighter, Gripen,
Rafale, Lavi, X-31, X-29, and A buncha MiG types. You don't
necessarily need to keep the wing from stalling, you just have
to have the control power to break the stall. Look at the size of
the canard and the range of motion on these airplanes sometime.

Dave 'kcud' Hyde