Minister, if it was a successful program, I'd suggest you should build it into a national broadband strategy, as recommended by the TPRP report in fact. If it was a successful pilot, it ought to become part of a national broadband strategy. That would be consistent with the TPRP recommendations.
On rural phone rates, Minister, on February 19 you told this committee that deregulation “will result in better prices and lower service costs”. That's not the case for rural and remote customers. In fact, the CRTC announcement on April 30 made it clear that rural customers would be paying more. In fact, the CRTC is going to be covering the higher costs of rural services through higher prices.
The Federal Communications Commission in the U.S. has undertaken measures to offset these costs in rural communities, in small-town communities. Will you be offsetting these costs with an explicit subsidy or some similar approach to the United States' Federal Communications Commission in order to cover the increased phone costs for rural Canada that have resulted from your deregulation of phone services?