When I went to road-test the FSVT last year in Granby, the dealer there (one of only 2 or maybe 3 in Quebec) told me that they only got 8 Contour SVT per year from Ford, with no chance to get more. Let's say 8 per dealer per model-year:
(8 * 3) * 2 years (Contour was not sold in Canada in 2000)
48 in Quebec, let's say equal quantities in the 9 other provinces...
48 * 9 = 432 total.
Wild guess.....