Canada Falling Behind

A report called Measuring the Information Society indicates that Canada's information age infrastructure is declining rapidly compared to other countries. In fact it is declining faster in Canada than anywhere else. When DSL was first deployed the the late 1990s, Canada was near the top of the list. This is such typically Canadian problem. There was a time when Toronto's transit system was held as model of how it should be done. Now the TTC is an embarrassment. Remember the Avro Arrow?

The main problem is that the big employers like natural resources and manufacturing get all the attention. The information age economy is barely blip on the charts so why bother with it? A good start would be to reign in the telecom monopolies who are becoming increasingly evil and are not acting in the best interest of the public. Sadly, even something as simple as that seems beyond our abilities.