Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Mr. Minister.
I'm going to start with rural broadband, if I could. One of the challenges—and you touched on this in your opening comments—that we have in this country is 34 million people spread over a very wide geographic area, which obviously creates some challenges.
We've done some big things in that area. We have invested in successive budgets, again in budget 2014. Maybe you could talk a little bit about the importance of rural broadband and what the government is doing to address those geographic challenges we have.