Yes, and we're still, a year and a half later, without those projects being completed.
In the third quarter of this year alone, the major telecoms had a profit of over $1.8 billion, which is higher than the total value of the universal broadband fund.
Can you give this committee an assurance that these three major telecoms will not take the bulk of the funding through this program, leaving many of the small, local ISPs across the country in many of our rural ridings out in the dark?