Thank you for your feedback. I'm happy to hear you think the product is great and that you are happy with the product itself. We fully understand your sentiment about where the product is made. We had a group of designers from Seattle design the bag, but due to the limited production capacity in Canada and the US it has been very difficult finding suitable AND available factory capacity to make the bags here. We've been trying to for the past two years to move, but unfortunately when COVID hit the task became even more difficult as most North American factories that do cut & sew quickly shifted to making much needed PPE. We continue to look for new factory partners and are currently vetting several, but it is a time consuming process to find one that can make a bag to our standards and that have available capacity (most of the best North American factories are operating at capacity). Regarding a "monetary fee for purchasing in Canada", I do not know what you are referring to as there are no special fees charged by us of any kind. After checking you order it shows there were no additional fees of any kind. You paid in USD so there was no currency conversion, the products ships from one of our US based warehouse (we operate in several countries) and we paid the full shipping cost, and you were not charged any sales tax. The only charges on your order were exactly the advertised product prices. If there were any extra fees charged you might want to contact your bank or card company because the fee didn't come from us and is not something we have heard of happening before. Regardless, I'm sorry to hear your experience wasn't the best it could have been. I will have someone from our customer care team reach out to you to try to help with regards to this mystery fee issue you are referring to. Kind regards, Sharon GoDark Bags Customer Care