CB use in Canada

To answer your question tho, about $$'s. You can buy a hand-held VHF that will have about 80 preset channels for about $500.00. This will include the 3 LADD channels. Unless things have changed, a license IS required for a VHF set that allows a person to select channels themselves.

the chinese hand held radios are fairly cheap. I bought a baofeng uv5ra radio with extra's for 50.00 us. I also just got my ham license so that's why I even started looking into these radio's.
Dennis