Nathaniel Erskine-Smith at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On November 24th, 2020. See this statement in context.

November 24th, 2020 / 12:45 p.m.

Liberal

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith Liberal Beaches—East York, ON

Thanks, Majid.

While 95% of Canadians in the highest income quartile are connected, just 62% in the lowest income quartile have Internet access. In March 2018 the CRTC concluded that there was a gap in the wireless market for lower-cost data-only plans.

Unfortunately, I think what they're really looking at is very low data amounts. Have you and your team looked instead at ensuring that Canadians have access to, say, two-gigabyte or three-gigabyte plans, data only, at a very low cost?

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