Dan O I believe that your talking about private industral chanels for this type of radios. Here is the link to a site I was given
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/s...oc/spect1.html .

The gentleman I was talking with was named David Warnes. He is the Senior Advisor, Spectrum Policy, Industry Canada. Spectrum is the office that over looks the radio waves in Canada. They control who is allowed to use what. My MP' s office contacted him on my behalf and then passed the phone to me to talk with him.

This is my understanding from the converstation. The reason GMRS is not allowed in Canada right now is because some of the private industral channels under contract to people are in conflect with the open channels of the GMRS. Those people and their private channels will have to be moved (assigned radio freqs.) to eliminate the conflect at a cost of which the GMRS manufactures will have to cover. The open GMRS channels will not have to be licienced in Canada to use them, but if you use the private industral channels you will still need a licience. The private channles restricts the channel to just you and not anyone else to cut in on you.

About the wattage of the GMRS. They are limmited to 5 watts maxium, but the open channels are usually manufactured to 2 watts but normally only 1 watt currently. In my opinion this is to allow growth in a few years to keep sales going.

Sorry I could not for some reason get your link to come up. All I got was a blank page and Acrobat Reader [:@].