Deputy, you've mentioned the Infrastructure Bank. That's a model where private industry will be expecting a large return. I think it's very cold comfort for rural remote communities to have even the perception that they might attract that. Also, that organization hasn't even set up its policies. It's only approved one loan.
I'd really like us to focus on your department and the CRTC. The CRTC has actually made public that it agrees with the hexagon model. There are whole communities that are not eligible for ISED or CRTC funding because in the corner of a single hexagon there may be one home wired up. Now even though other homes don't have any service at all, you and the CRTC say this grid is all okay; let's move on to the next.
So again I ask: Why is the government remaining behind the hexagon model when it basically eliminates large swaths of rural and remote communities?