This article talks about how, many Canadians still don't have internet access in their homes. About a fifth of Canadian households, many among the poorest in the country, still have no internet access in 2010. Around forty six percent of people who are considered to be low class citizens, (people who make $30,000 or less) have no internet access at all, according to Statistics Canada's 2010 Internet Use Survey. Then in the high class level, (people who make $87,000 or more) only three percent of people lack internet access. The survey also discovered that older people are more likely not to have interest in have access to the internet. This can be explained because they have lived the majority of their lives without it and they have no interest in taking time to learn how to use it. One of the last things that the survey brought to light is that families with young kids and teenagers are far more likely to have internet access.According to the survey one out of every five people in Canada don't have access to the internet. This really surprises me for a few reasons. First of all I live in a society that literally everyone has access to the internet pretty much 24/7 all year round. I guess it does make sense though that some older people just aren't interested in the internet because they have lived their entire lives without it, even though most of the older people that I know, such as my Opa, are on the internet all the time. Also I don't find it very surprising that lots of people who are considered lower class don't have access to the internet, probably due to the fact that it's just to expensive on a monthly basis. Over all though I am quite surprised that one out of every five Canadians don't have access to the internet.
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