Thank you.
Thank you to all the witnesses.
I would just like to start by saying that Internet access is not a luxury. It is a requirement for equality of opportunity and I think it's becoming a barrier to equality of opportunity to economic growth and productivity. So this isn't an issue that we can just ignore and hope that the status quo will fix.
What I hope to hear tonight is some consensus on a few issues. First of all, 2030 is not an aspirational or appropriate target for universal, reliable access to the Internet.
I'm going to start my questions with one directed to Ms. Tribe. Investment is important as we work toward access across this country, but would you say that spending is the metric that we should be driving to? Perhaps it should be to connect every Canadian with the 50-down/10-up requirement that you set forward within an aspirational timeline? I want to shoot for the end of next year.