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The canonical tag is meant to tell Google....   "These two pages are the same" It was not meant to prioritize pages in the rankings. Because your pages are very different from one another Google is probably ignoring the canonical tag. "should we just appreciate the fact that Google ranks us twice on the first page for this important keyword? " Yes.  You got two pages in the top ten of Google.  When that happens to me, I give thanks.