I can not speak for the rest of Canada but I am getting a little tired of big companies using us as a test case for unpopular changes. There is a piece of dialog from an old television series which goes: Q "Were they mad?" A "Well, as mad as Canadians get." Well, it happened. Mad. Here is the 'value' Netflix offers Canadians: - Far less content than Americans get at the same price - Spamming recommended titles with international content which does not appeal to most people outside of its country of origin. This artificially inflates the size of the catalogue. - A smaller advertising base, resulting in repetitively annoying advertisements. Often back-to-back. I am convinced the ads are deliberately scheduled as an emotional trigger to force people to upgrade. This is my tipping point. If anyone at Netflix reads this, and cares, please stage your experiments on some other undeserving country. If I were a little angrier, or had more time, I'd stage a boycott. But I'm out.

It took Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to get involved for rural farmers north of the border to get connected. And pay almost double the cost of a reasonable urban plan for the privilege of a measly 1.5Mbps. How open do you think Elon would be to including Canada when he covers Alaska? The market up here is ripe for a shakeup.

True, true. If I could pay for the service in maple syrup or surplus firewood I would not be so outraged. Maybe Netflix could extend an olive branch and film some originals up here. A 4K reboot of the Beachcombers? Or Justin Bieber as the King of Kensington? After all, the higher fees are supposed to support new programming...

In Canada the increase this year for the standard plan (ie the bare minimum needed to get high definition content) jumped 27%. True, our dollar is at a deep discount but so is the content Netflix makes available up here. Good luck finding an episode of (the original) Magnum PI or a reasonably new movie release. By my math a Canadian subscription is worth about $5. In Canadian currency. That might sound harsh considering governments put regional restrictions and licensing on some content, but Netflix also deliberately hampers the efforts of people using VPN services and DNS-based redirects. Years ago the Rhinoceros party had a campaign promise of simply selling Canada to the US and giving every Canadian a million dollars. If it meant we got American content for music and streaming services I'd say go for it.