Not really. I think the reality for a country like Canada is that it's very hard to put Canada on an exemption list like that if you're the European Union. Once you put Canada on it, you have to do the same for a lot of other countries, so I can understand why they would want to make formal commitments to the extent that they'd make them at all.
I'm not surprised by it. It's not great from our point of view, but I don't think it's surprising.