I have another thing on the funding side in particular. The universal broadband fund is one of the key elements the federal government is using to try to provide support for this. My push-back on the whole fund in the first place is that the money seems to be flowing to the wrong sectors or wrong providers. The vast majority of this money, in my observation, seems to be going to major Internet service providers—the big telecoms—and not so much to the smaller and especially rural-sized areas, because they can't compete for it.
I was shocked and disappointed when—I know Tim is in the same neck of the woods, in western Ontario—the SWIFT or Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology program, which was previously funded by the federal government.... Federal, provincial, municipal and private Internet service providers all had a fund. It worked well. The benefit of that program was that it concentrated more on the last five miles.
My biggest complaint about a lot of this funding is that it's going to service providers to put in Internet where they're going to go anyway—where the business model is. In the national strategy, the biggest shortfall is that it's not focused and that the money is not flowing to the most expensive spots in order to get to the last 5% or 10% of the Canadian population, in particular those in rural and remote areas.
Did you suss out any data that backs up my observation?