Why is my video quality so bad?

So I have this video which is just over 1GB and it's just under 6 mins, so surely the quality should be better than this? It was shot in 1080p with a Canon 7D. I have however scaled it up 150% using the scaling effect in Premiere Pro. Should I scale it a different way?

The AE (Detail preserving upscale effect) worked perfectly. It's actually very effective at maintaining the quality even when scaled up 150%

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