[bejk22]

I won't recognize (2) because it's false. Any current - and past - fwd will work just fine in Canadian snowy and icy conditions. Sure if you drive a shitty propulsion car you will get stuck everywhere but those cars are the exception.

Edit: you acknowledged yourself that argument is mostly bs later in your comment...

[jamwil]

Calgarian here. AWD does help in the snow.

[tomjakubowski]

FWD comes standard on the most popular SUVs sold in the US and Canada. I don't know for sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if only a minority of SUVs here are AWD.