Thanks for the quick answer dinu01.
See, now that just pisses me off; thank you Mazda Canada, for putting less value on my life than those of people in the US, Europe and Asia. I understand that they want to keep the MSRP down, with Canadian disposable income being lower on average than the US, but they give me the option of dropping cdn$1700 to swathe my car in dead cow and chop a hole in the roof, but not for curtain airbags to keep my head from exiting the car via the side window if I get T-boned. If Ford can manage to offer them on the Focus, why not Mazda?