It looks like America's Great White Northern neighbors may be set to show Apple some love, if a report from the Niagara Falls Review is correct. According to the newspaper, Canada's federal government has started a pilot program that puts the iPad in the hands of a number of their staff.
The Canadian government has launched the pilot project in an attempt to see whether providing a number of their officials at various levels of responsibility will provide for a notable reduction in paper waste, making for a smaller governmental carbon footprint as well as a more cheerful bottom line. According to Canadian treasury board spokesman Pierre-Alain Bujold, by providing an iPad to every senior official in the Canadian government, a savings of approximately $700 per official per year could be realized.
When you consider that along with the fact that each of the individuals involved in the iPad pilot project was receiving a 30-page binder of notes every morning before being handed an Apple-branded tablet, the environmental and financial benefits that could gleaned from seeing the government adopt the pilot project as canon are certainly compelling.
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