Damn, wonder what kind of data they have about Canada that would support the sale of such a stripped down console?
It's a test market.
I'm not sure why they wanted to test this in America's Hat instead of some other area of America, like the Nintendo World Store in New York or something, but they seemingly wanted to test it in something like America, but smaller than America, and not America. Perhaps it had something to do with retail connections, like... to see if they could push something silly through, and wondering how much would retail partners resist them if they did?