Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to our guests who have come to us from the commission.
I would start by saying that I enjoyed seeing some of the emphasis placed on access to broadband Internet. My riding has 191 communities, and 54 communities have no access whatsoever to broadband Internet.
The problem with that is not just a consumer problem, but a business problem. It's hard for a small community that loses its plant to attract business when it doesn't carry broadband Internet, because companies now buy capital assets through the auction houses and these sorts of things—through the Internet—and it's just impossible for them to do.
But where do we go at this point? My understanding is that over the years it has always been that the CRTC relatively had its hands off the Internet, certainly when it came to content. How do you do this? How do you push the fact that we need 100% penetration across this entire country?