Industry committee  Thank you for your question. We expect 100 communities to have connectivity by the end of 2020, a total of 750 to be connected by the end of 2021 and all 975 to be connected by the end of 2023. Over the past nine months, of course, the pandemic has caused delays for Internet ser

Industry committee  Which call for proposals are you referring to, specifically? There was no call for proposals under…. The call for proposals for the connect to innovate program closed a while ago.

Industry committee  That is the broadband fund, established by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, or CRTC.

Industry committee  That's no problem. The CRTC is part of the federal government. I can't speak to when the CRTC will announce the recipients of the funding under the process that was postponed until August 2020. Of the $750 million in available funding, a total of five projects valued at $72 mill

Industry committee  Thank you for your questions. Yes, satellite technology is certainly part of the solution. We will see the project applications we receive in February. There is no doubt that Canada's geography makes it really difficult to bring fibre-optic cable into certain areas. The answer i

Industry committee  Thanks, Mr. Kennedy. We have an extensive consultation with provinces, territories and municipalities. One of the big things that people were complaining about was the hexagon model. We listened, and our mapping team developed a new mapping tool. The hexagon is now gone, and we'

Industry committee  Thanks, Simon. MP Sloan, I've been talking to Jim Pine on a number of occasions. There is availability of the $1.75 billion. If EORN has leftover projects that can be eligible for rapid response, they can submit some applications—either under a partnership with the bank or from

Industry committee  Yes. We have been talking to EORN pretty regularly about how we can work together, so they're aware that we have launched a request for proposals. Actually, we've looped in the Infrastructure Bank and Ontario as well, because it gives us an opportunity to work closely with EORN o