The ability to provide remote communications is there. Can a farmer out in Grande Cache afford the bandwidth? The bandwidth is the issue. I can go outside Grande Cache and do that same service for that same fracking company—no problem. If you want one megabyte, 10 or 20 megabytes, or up-and-down streaming, I can do that, because they have the money.
The value to them of having that information instantaneously is critical, because a mistake could mean millions and millions of dollars. Then you go to Grande Cache residents and they say, “I don't know if I should pay $79.95 a month.” There's a dichotomy between the two, of course. For private industry to work, no matter what it costs, they'll pay for it. It's not that Grande Cache doesn't have access to fibre. If I'm not mistaken, fibre runs right through the middle of Grande Cache all the way up to Grande Prairie, so the infrastructure is there.
I'll give you an example: the town of Wandering River on the way up to Fort Mac. I got a job at Wandering River to provide a camp with Internet. There were 20 people. I gave them 100 meg service, up and down. It was a kilometre outside of the town of Wandering River. That service was backhauled over the Alberta SuperNet. I knew that the forestry was there and I could do that work. For the town, a mile down the road and with more than three separate fibre companies running fibre up to Fort Mac—Shaw, Telus, Bell, and the Alberta SuperNet—in the ditch, they couldn't get a megabit of service in town. The service was provided by an antenna that was five kilometres outside of town, beaming in an old-technology wireless service.
It's not that the infrastructure isn't in existence and that the infrastructure isn't there; it's that the infrastructure is owned by private entities, and in order for them to bother with Wandering River, they would have to go to the handhole that is 500 metres outside of town and do 10,000 dollars' worth of work, but there are only 40 people in Wandering River.