Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for your presentations today.
The first thing I'll start with is a definition of “access” and “measurement”. I think in general a lot of this is coming down to a societal question as to the cost, what a consumer should get, and their rights with regard to speed and type of service.
Taking over from Mr. Dreeshen's discussion about the rural community, for farming, for example, if we're all going to pay through service programs, in an area like mine, you have a number of people who decided to leave the city because they don't want to pay taxes for bus service, taxes for water treatment facilities, or for a number of things, and went to other municipalities that had lower taxes because they didn't have to pay for services in a city. Is there an analysis of how much goes to connect a place like cottage country, where we're worried about Buffy and Zane getting Netflix on their boat, versus someone in a farming field who actually uses a link to their tractor? What are the decision-making processes to determine if there's a differential between the two, and how is that measured with regard to results?