Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to follow up on my colleague because I think he might have been a little too defensive about what we do in terms of building a strategy, especially with the stimulus.
CRTC is in my hometown of Timmins and they're looking at the obligation to serve. I have areas that are on dial-up; I have areas that have no Internet access whatsoever. I'm being told that 1.5 megabits is a good standard for broadband in northern Ontario. Our northern college can't deliver educational resources at less than 5 megabits capacity. Then I find out that countries like Australia--very large, very rural--are looking to have 93% hooked up online, the rest, 7%, hooked up by mobile. They're talking of having 100-megabits-per-second capacity. We're looking at Sweden....
In terms of where we are in a digital realm, is it sufficient, given the vast geography of Canada, to assume that there's a market case to be made to get to the kinds of speeds our competitors are already way out in front on? Or do we need a major investment, a major plan, and to set major benchmarks to ensure that the rural parts of our country, the northern parts of our country, the isolated parts of our country, are not left to lag behind in terms of competition? I throw it out to anyone.