Yes, that is unrelated to it being sold in Canada. The videos you have been watching are of the older JA55 model. The easy to spot giveaway is the oil filter cover on the lower right side of the engine, and the cross bar in the silver engine guards. Both are missing in the older videos. The dipstick change happened with the change to the new engine to the JA65 model that you and the rest of the world are getting.
Look at the Canadian model's parts fiche , transmission section , you'll see there is a drum-lock
plate attached to one of the output shaft's (splined) gears . This spring-ed plate will lock/unlock the drum , depending on it spinning , or not. At a stop , drum will completely freely rotate .
I found this crazy at first , got used to it and now go back to Neutral mostly using the gimmick .
The clutch adjuster was much too loose on mine when new , I readjusted it with minimal play . Made shifting up much smoother . Shifting down ?...well I'm still working on it but it's getting better by the day as both transmisson AND rider are breakin' in ...
There's a kit sold by Webike that replaces the semiautomatic clutch opening ramp with
a little slave hydraulic cylinder ....very nice on paper ...but I've decided to live with the somewhat
clunky oem system (it does the job reliably enough to my retro tastes ).