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I think for the same reasons as the US. Entrenched, equally-terrible service providers who co-conspire in their shitness. It's just magnified because Canada is so vast.

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If vastness was really the issue, we'd see fiber everywhere in downtown Toronto. But we don't.

Nah, the previous answers have it more right. Strange regulation has enabled this kind of a situation.

Not strange regulation: regulatory capture, which is a subversion of the regulatory process by putting those being regulated in charge of regulation.

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