Thank you, Madam Chair.
My thanks to our witnesses for being here today. Their expertise is extremely helpful for our study.
Could we talk about broadband Internet access in Canada and the costs for that access?
According to the table presented to us earlier, for example, in Quebec, 96% of households can have access to fixed broadband. I don’t know exactly what the word “fixed” means. We see that 77% of those households are apparently connected, are apparently subscribers. I am more specifically interested in the 4% minority, the households for whom it is not possible. I am talking about the particular case of Quebec. Even the fact that it is only 4% bothers me, because they are often people in remote, isolated, rural regions. They have no access to broadband Internet.
Think of our farms in those regions, for example. They have increasingly sophisticated technologies that are very advanced. If we want them to be more and more competitive, they must have broadband Internet access.
What does the department intend to do to ensure better access, for those regions specifically?