Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Through you to our minister, I'm going to ask a question about the impact of high-speed Internet in rural Canada. Back in 2007 it was recognized how important it was to get rural Canada connected, especially those parts with very challenging topography. We had a pilot project then; all churches in the community used their steeples to make sure there was line of sight, and all our schools finally became connected.
Now you are building on this with the rollout, filling more broadband gaps. The concern is being raised that particularly in rural Canada, as we become more connected we do online banking, the need for tellers...the few jobs we have in small-town Canada become obsolete.
On the weekend we had a symposium of community colleges at Algonquin College in Pembroke, and the keynote speaker, Ken Coates from the University of Saskatchewan, was telling us that there is a toilet on the way—it's already in Japan—that will do a urinalysis and send an email to your doctor if anything is amiss. The doctor will send an email to your pharmacist, and the pharmacist will send an email to you to let you know that you have to pick up a prescription.