The issue is how to bring people to use lemmy. People go there it can find interactions, comments, and contents. Lemmy due low number of users... it's complicated.
For example, I'm from Italy and from Italian communities, and you find very difficult posts with comments or upvoted. It's obvious that you'll see that the environment is not so alive.
I think that the Canadian politicians fear that then the economic struggle due to tariff wars may cause resentment against them than the USA. So they try to find a way to avoid a war