I'm from Waterloo and was actually raised in the Yukon, so this one strikes really close to home in terms of access.
Canada has a surprisingly large number of people who live in rural and small-town areas. What I would also suggest we be very careful of is that the Internet is actually really harming a lot of small towns and rural areas, particularly on the commercial side. It's really interesting watching, as the Internet comes into communities, how you can actually buy things from Canadian Tire, you can buy things from Future Shop. We're starting to see some real bleeding of some of the small towns. It's already happening in these small towns, and you'll know this well.
We actually need to know an awful lot more about the full impact of the Internet on small-town areas. If you go back ten years, we were talking about the fact that the Internet would make it possible for professionals to live anywhere. Artists could live in these small communities and we would see a revitalization of small towns. Statistically, it's not happening. What's happening is people are living an hour away from a major city. So they'll live in Waterloo and come into Toronto twice a week or something like that. They're not actually moving to Moosonee and using the fact that the Internet's available there to do their work from a much greater distance.
So I'm with you on the need to provide the service, but I think we need to be really open-minded as to what the full impact is going to be and the effect it's going to have.
On the educational side, it's phenomenally rich in potential. You can change the whole experience of high school and elementary education in small communities, if we can get it right.