Mr. Speaker, I rise again to speak to the matter of a lack of telephones in a part of Peterborough County.
It is extraordinary in the modern age that a location in southern Ontario, close to the city of Peterborough, has telephone poles but has never had telephones. This affects families in situations of emergency or their children accessing the Internet, as so many other children are doing, and so on.
This is in a country which pioneered telephones and telephone service, and which prides itself on being the most connected country in the world.
The petitioners call upon parliament to intervene on behalf of these people through relevant federal departments, the CRTC and Bell Canada.