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Canada could produce generation of Internet elite.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| August 01, 2001 | Newman, Heather | COPYRIGHT 2001 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

DETROIT _ If you want to see the site of the next Internet boom, just look to our friends across the border, eh?

Canada is poised to become a Net sales powerhouse by 2005, analysts estimate, with $175 billion in U.S. dollars in business-to-business sales alone, propelled by automotive companies in Ontario and a push by the high-tech and petroleum industries. That's about a fifth of the country's total projected business-to-business trade.

The country's young adults already go online more than people in the United States and in several European countries. That suggests the next generation of elite digital workers could be just over the border.

In all, the country is poised for what Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass., calls a period of hypergrowth in its business Internet usage. Adults there are already more likely to own a ...

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