Thank you for your question.
The police don't make much of a distinction between the services offered by companies established in Canada and those outside Canada. The services provided, particularly chat apps from the United States or even other countries, are very popular among people in Canada. They are often used for communication between people linked to crime or to commit Criminal Code offences. We don't see a difference between using a Canadian‑based app and using an American‑based one.
If we receive a complaint about a communication method that uses an app provided by a company based outside Canada, we're still at the beginning of the investigation, and we still have to go and get the same information to try to establish links between the crime and a particular person or device.