Think Nav Canada or Eurocontrol...user fees are probably coming. Being recently retired ATC who worked next to Toroto Centre (and visited to talk with their airspace team), Nav Canada works very well. Way better workforce balance.
But, Canada doesn’t move the traffic that we do. By the way, Canadian GA comes over to US airspace for practice approaches (to dodge the user fees in Canada).
Can you confirm that Nav Canada is set up as their version of a 501(c)(3) and that while a non-profit it gets its funds from the Canadian Govt?
As I understand it, this gave them the freedom to purchase the latest hardware / software for the controllers vs going through our dunderheads in the House and Senate and have any modernization being subjected to herding 535 cats...