This is precisely what I have been saying since the entire CGN-only "tempest in a teapot" began concerning the M10X. We hear all sorts of righteous indignation over getting taken for a $500 ride on a $1500 M10X, but silence despite getting ripped off a grand on the purchase of every Tavor TAR-21 or X95. The mark-up on the M10X is actually just "business as usual" in Canada. All of the upset is over the fact that the average consumer now understands just how badly they are being ripped off by the parasitic, "middle-man" importation companies. It has nothing to do with the M10X per se - that just happens to be the platform where the pricing games became so apparent thanks to the shameless greed of the parent company and the "big Canadian importer". It could have just as easily been the introduction of the X95, had IWI been excessively greedy in eyeing up the Canadian retmail firearms market.
All of the above to say that the problem is not with the M10X, which by all accounts appears to be a solid rifle with some interesting design cues. The problem lies with the "system" that brought the M10X to the retail market in Canada, full-stop. For that reason, I will eventually own an M10X and f#ck the haters because they're too stupid to realize that their hate is misdirected at an object instead of the people responsible for screwing up its retail launch. I simply choose not to reward NS and M+M by padding their pockets any more than is fair. Which is why I will acquire a restricted version through a 3rd Party Importer, or will wait until the Canadian MSRP drops below $1700 for the NR version,
Simple really, and no need to vent all over the place about company behaviour which has been entirely consistent all along....