Can you tell all the people in my constituency when this will be resolved? What's the target deadline? Is it 2030, 2035 or 2045?
Government programs often encounter delays. I was a mayor and I saw this. In 2020, we were told that things would be ready in 2025. Now we're hearing 2035, and we'll need to keep waiting. The deadline keeps being pushed back. I think that, with the subsidies granted and the money spent, the 100% target should have been reached in Canada. Let's not forget that Quebec stepped up because it felt that Ottawa wasn't moving fast enough. It provided additional funding to speed up the process.
I recently had to go to bat for a company that was asked to spend $85,000 to bring fibre optics within 1.5 kilometres of its building. It's unbelievable that, in a developed country such as ours, a company must spend $85,000 to connect to fibre optics. It's crazy. I still don't understand why we're currently in this type of situation. Please explain.