Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, and I might be able to help answer your earlier question, too. Fibre optics is wonderful, but it needs a physical landing point. It needs a physical location. The beauty of satellite—which is important for the mining sector as well—is that it covers a large swath. So when I

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I've left some documents behind with the clerk. We have something called the Qimirluk solution. Qimirluk is the Inuktitut word for backbone. You focus on communities. It may be a rural area, but we try to deliver into a central hub and beam out from there, or allow any number of

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, it's working in most of southern Canada, where fibre is, as long as the regulator actually intervenes—in this case the regulator needs to be the Government of Canada—and makes certain that there's proper access to that for third-party service providers. You have to divide “

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for that. We're a little bit of an offbeat company. We have three rules: Will you love the job? Can you do the job? Can we stand to spend time with you? We say it a little differently, but that's the idea. In each one of our served communities, we have community servi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're trying to finish that work.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Oh yes, for the most part, we know. But as a simple example, Nunavut did not have cellular service in 18 of the 25 communities until this year when we completed that work. There are some 89 expert reports from a couple of years ago from the CRTC. I think it would be a little hi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's not necessarily that user friendly. You'd be better off talking to me. I hate to say it that way. And I hate to say this, but it's more user-friendly for people in the industry like me if you're looking at trying to find the density, the availability, the number of people w

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't want to say that, because I could probably give you some names of people who would be able to help you work through that. As I say, it's really been destined more for spectrum auctions. For example, the whole country has been cordoned off into little hexagons and octagon

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes and no. It depends on what telehealth you mean. If you want to do remote-area diagnostics where it's extremely capacity-requiring, I would say no. That is something where we need much greater capacity than we have today. If you're doing something like telepsychiatry where you

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That is a good question. Thank you. Investments have been made, but more are needed. We need about $2 billion, perhaps a little more, to meet the needs. Of course, the private sector has a role to play in the investments. We are now in a difficult situation. We applaud the gove

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. It's a good day.

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

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—