Mr. Speaker, I have spoken in the House before about the lack of telephones in a part of Peterborough county.
I now present a petition on behalf of scores of people in the county who say that whereas Canada is the most connected country in the world and whereas Canadians pioneered telephones and telephone service, it is extraordinary that there are homes in southern Ontario, specifically on Peterborough County Road 40, that do not have telephone service. A short drive from the city of Peterborough there are families with children without telephones. They have telephone polls at their gates and there are homes with phones a couple of kilometres away.
Therefore the petitioners call upon parliament to intervene on behalf of these people through relevant federal departments, the CRTC and Bell Canada.