Industry committee  Merci beaucoup. I want to thank the committee for this opportunity to contribute to your study and to discuss plans to improve rural and remote area broadband connectivity. If I could just take a quick second, I have a very dear friend in the room, Adamee Itorcheak, who I wasn'

Industry committee  That is a cellular service. It's our network, so we—

Industry committee  It's working extremely well.

Industry committee  We have our own infrastructure. That's right. Actually, as I said, last Thursday we launched mobile service for the first time, but it's more than just as a WISP: it's actually as a CLEC. A few years ago, we forced open the local market, which I think was the last regulated, pr

Industry committee  We use fibre. In the case of Nunavut, it's actually government fibre. The Government of Nunavut is one of our clients, and they have built out their own fibre ring. We're delivering it across their own fibre to their buildings. With consumers, small offices, home offices, it's al

Industry committee  My Saskatchewan accent is coming out.

Industry committee  It depends on your use. It depends on what you want to be doing. We're obviously advocates of wireless technologies, mobile wireless, 4G LTE, soon to be 5G. If you're talking about an individual connection to a home, to a business, fibre is obviously the cream of the cream, but t

Industry committee  Fibre is much, much more expensive, yes.

Industry committee  Net neutrality is a tough subject. Our company members are Internet pioneers. It would be fun if you actually came and met some of the originals from the company. We're strong believers in the openness of the Net. There's another way to look at this one as well, though, which is

Industry committee  We intervened in favour of the spectrum set-asides for the smaller players, the new entrants. We intervened in favour of a much lower opening price, because that has been a real hurdle for us in past auctions. In outlying areas where it's very difficult to build out a network, th

Industry committee  That's a wonderful question. I should almost bring Adamee up to answer it. Imagine a world where school doesn't go far enough. Often kids have to be sent away to finish high school. In a world where there are no banks, no bricks and mortar, in a world where.... As a friend of m

Industry committee  I would echo the concerns over the amount of paperwork. At the same time, I profoundly believe that a recipient of funding needs to disclose what that funding is being used for. I might go a little further and say that it's one thing to report, but it's another thing to make sure

Industry committee  I certainly hope not. We are concerned that parties are receiving funding under connect to innovate—

Industry committee  That may or may not open up the backbone.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, and ladies and gentlemen of the committee. I'm Dean Proctor, the chief development officer at SSi. We give our sincere thanks to the committee for the opportunity to appear today and contribute to your study on northern infrastructure projects and strat