Thank you.
I think there is a world where 5G can lead to a lot of innovation for indigenous, remote and rural communities. There's a lot of talk of what it can do for farming communities, for example, and how it can actually help with our agricultural industries. I think the concern I have, and that a number of people have, with 5G is that the promises of what it can do for rural Canada are very far from where we are in actually implementing it in rural Canada.
In the same way that we have seen all other Internet technologies start in the most densely populated areas and work their way out, 5G will follow the same footprint and the same path. We've heard from the companies themselves that they're looking to deploy their 5G technology starting in cities like Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, and rolling outward from there.
A lot of the talk about what it can do is dependent on not just its first being served to those who already have the best Internet access but its being reliant on things like fibre as the backbone to actually get there, which, as we know through previous conversations around Internet infrastructure, is far from reality in a number of those areas. We're a long way away from there.