Literature is not necessarily “pop culture” but an influential Canadian writer could be the answer to the question.
As far as Canadian influential writers on America are concerned, I’m thinking of Marshal McLuhan
From the link
McLuhan’s work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory, as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries.
Though the World Wide Web was invented almost thirty years after The Gutenberg Galaxy, and ten years after his death, McLuhan prophesied the web technology seen today as early as 1962:
The next medium, whatever it is—it may be the extension of consciousness—will include television as its content, not as its environment, and will transform television into an art form. A computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organization, retrieve the individual’s encyclopedic function and flip into a private line to speedily tailored data of a saleable kind (Marshall McLuhan 1962).[citation needed]
Furthermore, McLuhan coined and certainly popularized the usage of the term “surfing” to refer to rapid, irregular and multidirectional movement through a heterogeneous body of documents or knowledge, e.g., statements like “Heidegger surf-boards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave.” Paul Levinson’s 1999 book Digital McLuhan explores the ways that McLuhan’s work can be better understood through the lens of the digital revolution.[3]
Mike Holmes?
I met an American once and as soon as he heard I was from Canada his first question was: 'What’s the deal with Mike Holmes? He’s on US TV 24/7 it seems".
He’s just trying to make things right.
Personally I’m more of a Bryan (of “House of Bryan” fame) fan.
MtM