Mrs. Janet DiFrancesco at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On November 29th, 2011. See this statement in context.

November 29th, 2011 / 4:40 p.m.

Director General, Electronic Commerce Branch, Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications Sector, Department of Industry

Janet DiFrancesco

Certainly.

The broadband Canada program is a three-year sunsetting program. On what we have achieved, as you noted, only 14 of the projects are currently completed. The remaining 35 will be completed by December 31, 2011, with a few projects going into March 2012. All of the projects will be completed by the summer of 2012.

We are monitoring them very closely. One of the things we need to understand with Internet projects is that the networks are complex and require a significant amount of effort and sometimes reworking to get them right and provide the service we're looking for.

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