Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I will be sharing my time with that force of nature, MP Hutchings.
Minister Monsef, there's a real problem, not only in remote and rural areas, but even in ridings such as mine, Markham—Stouffville, in terms of what I would call under-connectivity. I have a community in southeast Markham, Locust Hill. It has 37 houses and their Internet connection is extremely slow, to the extent that they cannot participate in Zoom conferences. Even during the spring, students could not access online learning from this community. They have done everything they could in terms of approaching the telecoms and so on, and they were simply told that it was not economical to run fibre to that community. This is a community within three kilometres of Markham Stouffville Hospital and a very large subdivision, which is, of course, fully connected.
How will the universal broadband fund help communities like Locust Hill?