In theory - however in practice "fast-track" and "Canadian government" don't naturally go together.
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Stuck in Vancouver is hardly a terrible fate.
Run the company from there - the city is crawling with tv/film/media people who cost half as much as the do in Ca.
There are two kinds of news sources these days; blogs for people who have personal experience of the topic, and real news sources (NYT, etc.) for reprinting press releases of those companies that don't compete with their parent media group.
Until they publish accounts we don't know if it's thriving. They could have 2million free users all using 1.99gb and no paying customers at all.
It's almost impossible to charge $1 for something. As soon as you start charging you need, a secure site, a credit card processor, accountants, lawyers, tax accountants, tax lawyers - repeat for each state/province/country/jurisdiction.
You go from a company with a dozen programmers enjoying what you do to a company of 1000s of employees making sure you have met the requirements for an out of state advertiser in Nowheresville Ak