Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, again, to the witnesses here chatting about the red dress alert and implementing it.
We have the officials here today because there is consensus regarding this red dress alert, but we're trying to nail down the technical issues. There seems to be a little frustration with not getting answers today.
Blue Sky Net has found that of the 285 northern Ontario communities, only 74 had at least 50% of their households able to access 50/10 megabytes per second high-speed Internet equal to 26% of northern Ontario communities. The same report found that of the 187 communities with a population under 1,000, only 41 have at least half of households able to access a standard rate of speed.
The Minister of Rural Economic Development has spent $7.6 billion since 2015 to improve high-speed Internet access in underserved communities, but even if you get access—which we see in the Auditor General's report that you don't have—Canada still has the highest cellphone bills when compared to other countries. If you have service and you can't afford it, you might as well not have it.
There's a major gap here. They're called dead zones and they're literally dead zones for women who go missing.
My question for Public Safety is this: You're saying here today that this isn't necessarily your file, but how would you fix this? How would you go back and say, “Okay, we need to work with another ministry to ensure that this happens,” and put that on a timeline? For taxpayers watching at home, can you tell us what happens in that process? What happens so that you get, “Okay, I'm going to go talk to this ministry to ensure that this happens”?