I'm a member of the Nicola Tribal Association. My community is right in the Fraser Canyon, just nine kilometres south of where the Thompson and Fraser Rivers meet in Lytton. We're right on the Trans-Canada Highway, yet it's almost as though we live in isolation. We have no high-speed Internet in our community, and yet we have fibre all around us. We've been told by the department and the federal government since the year 2000 that we would have high-speed Internet. We still do not have high-speed Internet in our community. We don't have telehealth.
We don't have high-speed Internet for our children to reach into that big, broad world of education. They go to the high school and they're on dial-up. My son says it takes 45 minutes for him to get online, and he gets 15 minutes computer time. How much is that impacting him, and how much is that restricting aboriginal children in my community to keep them in poverty? These are very real things in my community.