Yeah, 0.5$/min LD and per-minute billing is just a highway robbery in the age of Hangouts and other VoIP apps!
It would be nice of course to have a non-expiring lot of a 1000 LD minutes or so, Public Mobile style, even if not free, but with a reasonable rate.
Besides, I was also thinking that there might be a way to somehow enforce policy of all non-canadian LD to go via Hangouts or VoIP using Hangouts or similar apps?.
I recall that Google Voice app years back has some options for handling separately international vs domestic calls with different dialers (not sure it was able to differentiate Canada vs US?). Since then, I hear that Google Voice app improved (there was even a link to the new GV app posted on these forums).
Are there any users of GV app 'round here?