Finland 0.338M sq.km. Pop. Density: 16.4/sq.km
Finns are packed in tighter, more cost effective.
How many kids outside of CA cities are gonna get their bikeways plowed whenever they have more than 4cm of snow?
But snowplows ignoring bike trails? Oh yeah.
Think of average class size vs. median class at a university. The majority of students' class experiences are class sizes are smaller than average. The average is dominated by the rare classes which are huge.
Likewise, the vast majority (80%+) of Canadians and Finns live in cities or suburbs. These places are far denser than the national average, and occupy tiny portions of the total land area, in both countries. So to that 80% of the population, the density they live in is nothing like the national average.
Over half of all Canadians live at a lattitude south of Seattle.
Most of Canada's population live in the small area between Toronto and Montreal.
What I'm saying is that population density using Canada as a whole is a dumb statistic. Where there's people in Canada, there's lots of them, and most of the land area is literally uninhabitable by almost any standard.