I want to get a dynamo hub front wheel for my bike. Sounds good so far, right? Well the problem comes when I try to find a decent price in Canada. I can find a lot of decent prices online, but importing the wheel results in 6.5% additional tax to the cost (not to mention GST/QST/HST), if it is assembled. The idea is that this encourages Canadian built... but I can't find any Canadian built dynamo wheels that weren't just shipped here so are really expensive, or the hub and the unassmbled wheel were sent here and then assembled, thus also really expensive.

If I buy a dynamo hub, and then ask my LBS to assemble it on my existing wheel, its going to run me $150 just for the assembly. So... I either pay for the assembly, or I pay the government for the import, in the end its a lot of money just so I can have an environmentally friendly bike light.

I'm hoping someone out there in Canadaland has a solution... if its "assemble your own wheel", I'm not really skilled enough to do that, nor do I have the tools.