Right.
There have been lots of initiatives. This government currently has a plan to put more bandwidth into rural communities. The challenge with that is simply the expense. I was in India recently, working with a company that is installing 25,000 kilometres of high-speed fiber optic cable in the ground to connect 80% of the Indian population to 4G LTE. That's better than we have, and this is India. But they also have 1.3 billion people in a country a fifth the size of what we have. I think we could blow our brains out trying to get high-speed bandwidth into the final ends of the communities. Speaking as a business guy, from the point of view of return on investment, I think it would be so expensive it probably wouldn't make sense.
As far as the communities are concerned here, we need to beef them up. This is a globally competitive marketplace. As Karen knows, the unemployment rate in the technology sector in Ottawa right now is 1.0%. Everybody's hiring. There is global competition for us in attracting people from all over the world. The most innovative people in the world are the ones who create jobs—the Tobi Lütkes of the world, from Shopify.
I often say there are two types of immigrants—those who take jobs and those who make jobs. The ones who make jobs are the ones we want to come here. Given the current situation south of the border, we used to be number two in the world for places people wanted to go. Now we're number one. We have an opportunity.
Where do the most innovative people want to live? They want to live in the most innovative cities. To the extent that we can be that, and make those kinds of investments, I think we'll be attracting the kind of talent that will continue to keep Canada one of the best countries in the world.