iMedia: Canadians Buying More at Home

Canadians are turning to domestic ecommerce sites finally, with spending growing about 20 percent in the last quarter of 2003 relative to the year before. Canada's balky ecommerce growth has been somewhat of a mystery, especially given the opposite trend seen in other northern and sparsely-populated and highly-taxed nations, such as the Scandinavian countries.

The growth came almost entirely from online travel spending, according to comScore. The other ecommerce spending remained flat.