What do I mean by this?
Ok here’s what I mean: I visit a lot of websites, part of my job I suppose. In that, I fill a lot of forms in, and of all of them, and I mean -ALL-, not one in the UK has the UK as the default country. It’s always the US.
Come on, if you’re a UK site, put the UK as the default country selection. Get some balls, show us you love the UK and want UK surfers first!

The thing is - lots of sites that -are- .co.uk do it, and I presume .ca do the same. They ...
I use .com too, and should be using .ca. But the thing is. .com is so common. Even The Diplomat is ...