When it comes to electronics 'the same as' is rarely the same as, and often the difference is dangerous.

I'm sorry now that I didn't keep the link but I recall a post by an electronics engineer who disassembled an Apple brand iPhone power adapter and a Chinese iPhone knock off power adapter. They looked the same on the outside and the knock off was literally a fraction of the price, but once apart the differences were obvious even to an untrained eye.

In short the Apple product both performed as expected and was safe to use; if was if anything overdesigned. Whereas the Chinese product barely, just barely, produced the correct current and was clearly cobbled together using not only the cheapest components but with the bare minimum of insulation. Once you understood all of the issues involved paying $50 (or whatever it was, I can't recall now) for the Apple product felt like a deal. Whereas $5 for the Chinese product felt like the equivalent of playing with a loaded pistol with a hair trigger.

I'm not saying all Chinese electronics are crap. Nor am I trying to claim that the $50 in Canada item isn't the same as the $7 Alibaba item. I'm just saying that using price as your only metric is foolish.