Siobhan Coady at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On February 10th, 2011. See this statement in context.

February 10th, 2011 / 5:20 p.m.

Liberal

Siobhan Coady Liberal St. John's South—Mount Pearl, NL

Thank you very much.

Thank you to Bell for the mental health day the other day. It was very well done.

And thank you all, gentlemen, for being here.

Mr. Bibic, in an article you published in the Financial Post in early February, you stated that “Canada has increasingly become a world leader when it comes to broadband”, both in speed and low cost. Yet time and time again we hear that's not exactly the case.

Let me tell you about TekSavvy, which was before us the other day. They showed us a chart that showed that among the 30 OECD countries, Canada ranks 25th for download speeds and 23rd for the cost of broadband.

So my question to you is which is it. Are we a leader or a laggard?

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