I can assure you that not only Canadians doing those studies. Many countries are considering use of modified herpes to cure a skin (and not oly) cancer. Here is a similar news from my country:
chrdk.ru/news/2015/7/9/borba-s-rakom-s-pomoshju-virusov (use Google translate). So it will be implemented in any case. If not in Canada, then in Britain, China or Russia... So get ready for a zombie apocalypse ;)