I'd encourage the committee to look at the ACIA report. It goes into specific examples of how federal departments are unable to deliver services in northern communities that they normally would in the south due to either insufficient bandwidth or lack of redundancy—or latency; if you only have a satellite connection, then you can't really do real-time entry into a database, because you have a four-second latency.
The report focuses on the need to improve that connectivity standard. We have endorsed the recommendation in that report for a holistic strategy to look at northern connectivity not in an ad hoc way, so not necessarily an Industry Canada program here or a CRTC decision there. We need to look at it in a holistic manner so that when 2016 comes, and the current set of subsidies expires, there's a comprehensive solution that takes into account that user demands are increasing every year.
Right now, usually what happens is you benchmark to a certain level, you have a program to meet that benchmark, and then you're left sort of static until the next step. There needs to be a system that accounts for that constant evolution in connectivity.