I was able to reach out to the Canada Quickbooks Online support and I was told that there is NO option to export the data from the Canada website, only for the US.

You can only generate/export Excel files for future references. They cannot be used to import back to Quickbooks Desktop

This is ridicules. There were NO message or warning stating that once you move from the Desktop to Online Quickbooks you will not be able to go back.

I am extremely frustrated and disappointed not to say that as an IT expert, I see this clearly as some kind of a trick to keep customers paying monthly fees. What else can I say?