Let’s also remember that Canada has about 1/10 the number of people as the USA with a land mass about the same size...
Yes, that is true. However, 95% of the population live within a a couple hundred miles of the US border.
Most of the population is in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary.
Nobody lives in the NW territories, Yukon, northern ONT, Quebec, and BC.
16% of the population of Canada lives in Toronto(6 out of 38 million). Over a third lives in Ontario.