Thanks, Chair.
Thanks to the witnesses.
I won't have a lot of time for questions, but I want to talk about broadband.
Ms. Ropar, you said at the beginning of your presentation that one of the roles you have is advising government at all levels on investment opportunities. I tried to write your exact words, so correct me if that's incorrect.
Then, Mr. Casola, you also spoke in lines of questioning, I think from Mr. Poilievre, about the importance of the investments, and you said that maybe the private sector wouldn't be there. For me and my community, broadband is a perfect example.
We are right next to Toronto, so investing in the infrastructure for broadband in our community is not worth it to the private sector right now, because they have a customer base in Toronto that is growing and huge, and going 20 minutes away or any bit further north—and I'm talking even in urban Pickering, let alone the rural parts of my riding—it's not an economic investment worth making for those telecom companies. However, there would be an economic benefit to our country if more people had access to broadband.
How or what are you doing to work with, for example, municipal levels of government that desperately want to get into the broadband delivery to provide this resource? Then, can you maybe speak to what we can expect, because this is the number one issue in my riding, and how will the Infrastructure Bank be able to help tackle this enormous need in our community?