I can't confirm or deny Mr. Lord's comments with regard to wireless coverage. The CANARIE network is focused solely on research and education. It's not available to the average Canadian for use the way the commercial Internet is. The CANARIE network, though, is a world leader in terms of the capacity it offers to our researchers and has been a world leader pretty much since its inception in 1993. So with respect to research and education networking, yes, Canada is at the forefront with regard to bandwidth and capacity available to our researchers.
On November 16th, 2011. See this statement in context.