Apparently Canada is about ten square miles.
People have a lot of complaints about this movie. I find some of them valid and some just a little silly. The editing was a little weird, It just didn't work for me and actually got confusing at some points. And there was zero catharsis at the end. It was just, oh, it was the insanely creepy guy with all the connections... who woulda guessed?
But the oddest thing to me was the setting. I just couldn't figure it out. A lot of the time it had a really rural vibe. Ryan Reynolds was always out on the road in towns and diners and what not that he was not familiar with. But, at the same time, creepy obvious pedo guy was always right there wherever the plot went. He was meddling in the entire "community". In a movie like this, the climate and setting can be used as a character, add to the isolation, or be used in other interesting and gorgeous ways. But here I just got the feeling that Canada was cheaper to shoot in. All of which I could live with if there was any sense of scale. Because if it's a middle to small community, I don't know how the hell the bad guy didn't raise eyebrows.
"Take off, eh. That really rich hoser reminds me of an evil John Waters. Dontcha know they might be wondering why he happens to be there when the detective disappears at the endangered youth conference? And he's related or something to that guy who was just arrested for creepy stuff. Take off, hosehead. I betcha he's teh bad guy, dontcha know?