The Matawinie RCM has made many representations over the past few years, especially to the Quebec government, but also to private telecommunications companies to get them to set up in Matawinie, but without being limited to serving only the main street of municipalities.
The 15 mayors met and decided to build a shared network that will belong to them—a type of community project that is really the RCM's project.
Once we have reimbursed the $60 million, which is not going to happen overnight, we will reinvest the benefits in our 15 communities, which will be able to develop economically thanks to this fibre optic network that will belong to them. So our project is the result of collaborative efforts by 15 municipalities, each of which have their own separate reality, but which decided to collaborate. We have followed the same principle as that of the Bécancour RCM project, in the Trois-Rivières region. I also know that a project underway in the York Township in Ontario is following the same approach as us.