# Taking computer equipment into Canada

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-computer-equipment-into-canada/465076>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 24, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-computer-equipment-into-canada/465076 "2008-09-24T22:57:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-computer-equipment-into-canada/465076/21 "2008-09-26T18:06:33Z")

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Not to single you out, **ASAKMOTSD** , since I’ve run into this a couple of times recently, but there seems to be a perception that Canada is not as technologically-literate as other G8 countries. This perception is patently false; Canadians embrace technology like you wouldn’t believe. We had a federal government that made it their priority to make sure every part of Canada was connected to the internet (and that itself was an unbelievably huge undertaking - have you _seen_ our country?), and our percentage of household internet usage is higher than that of the US and UK.

[Canadian internet usage statistics, 2003 - 64.2 % of households are online.](http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/comm10a.htm)

[U.S. internet usage statistics, 2003 - 58.7% of households are online.](http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/anol/NationOnlineBroadband04.pdf)

[U.K. internet usage statistics, 2005 - 59.8% of the population are online.](http://www.internetworldstats.com/eu/uk.htm)

Just thought I’d nip that in the bud if anyone was harbouring false ideas. 🙂

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