Anyway, the point of this thought is that the world building that both TV shows have built their fictional worlds around companies and businesses structuring most spaces, which makes most structures hellish and chaotic as a result. Thus in my search for Cancon in these Canadian shows, I'm beginning to wonder if this has something to do with the history of company towns which settled most of Canada. There's more parallels than just vague references to "the company" as a vague evil other in both series. These companies need the hellish towns to go on existing, usually for the purpose of resource extraction. And these companies aren't usually outright evil, so much as they are authorities that are selfish, distant, and indifferent. This reminds me of the coal, gold, and copper mines at the centre of nearly every extant town in BC (and quite a few abandoned ones as well). Not to mention obvious targets like towns named "Asbestos" or "Radium."
Were this an American series, I suspect that this would play out as a kind of dynamic of cities exploiting small towns, but here this kind of story stands alongside nature becoming more malevolent in response to these resources being pulled out of the ground. Sometime the poisoned, angry, polluted nature becomes a part of the social dynamic of exploitation at the centre of the shows, as when the anti-company conspirators are executed by being left out in the acid rain in Killjoys.
What's interesting about this is that the hell of the company town in the wilderness, the historical basis of so much of Canadian society, is something that can only be imagined as an imaginary future. Canada's own historical narratives are usually not this bleak, not so focused on outsiders, criminals, and rebels being the only characters that could possibly garner sympathy with an audience.