Intelligent Communities are those which have come to understand the challenges of the Broadband Economy and have taken conscious steps to create an economy capable of prospering in it.
Prospering Broadband Economies are located everywhere, in developing and developed countries, in suburbs as well as cities, across coastal municipalities the coast, and in the interior.
Broadband offers every community to move from the periphery to the center in economic terms.
LINK: Intelligent Communities Forum 
Compared to other countries, Canada ranks 5th in most EXPENSIVE broadband connections and 20th in the DOWNLOAD speed.