It's because we canadians generally like and buy smaller cars/trucks than you guys in the states. Our gas is slightly more expensive than yours or at least we are all pretty much too cheap to want to pay the current prices. We like our civics over accords and prefer cute utes to big jumbo tanks like the pathfinder armada. And we also like compacts and minivans over trucks and midsizers. Oh, we're also more receptive to hatchbacks and wagons.