Really, it will take more federal funding. The federal government has gone through the connecting Canadians program, and that has almost run out. We'll be asking the federal government to look at some kind of a new program.
We need a couple of things. We need to improve the backbone—the cable delivery of high-speed Internet in rural areas. We also need that last mile, to make sure that farm residences can hook up to that site. That's very important.
Our technology isn't that bad in this country. For instance, my neighbour bought two combines that were manufactured in Germany. They're compatible with the software we have here, and they're able to download. The problem is they don't have enough capability. We need probably 25 gigabytes of download speed and almost the same upload speed to be able to transfer that data on the farm to keep track of the crop yields.
It will take more funding, but also strategic partnerships in the provinces themselves. We need to talk to the Internet service providers to make them understand that it's not just urban Canada but also rural Canada that's important.