Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We were speaking earlier about the importance of Internet access at home, but we often tend to forget about access to cellular communications. Many farmers have told me how much this had changed their activities. For example, if a farmer's tractor breaks down when he is in the middle of a field, he would be stuck there. Farmers who still don't have a cellular connection would have to walk across the whole field to return home and get another vehicle to find an employee. If they had a cellular connection, they could solve some problems in two or three minutes by getting an employee to come to them. It's the same thing when they need another person to help when animals are calving.
Do you think enough is being done to resolve the problem of access to a cellular connection in rural regions? How might cellular connectivity help farmers and producers?