Industry committee  Xplornet has a considerable amount of experience working with governments at all levels on infrastructure projects. A good example is a project that Mr. Bossio would be quite familiar with, and that's our relationship with the Eastern Ontario Regional Network, EORN. They brand themselves as a novel partnership, and it really is novel in the sense that mayors from the region of eastern Ontario circa 2010 felt that there was a real lack of broadband infrastructure in their part of the province and they banded together.

Industry committee  What we had identified were three core principles. I'll start at the end and I'll work my way forward. The third is access to spectrum. The second is targeted public funding. The first, as you rightly mentioned, is governments at all levels just getting out of the way of the private sector and allowing it to continually and aggressively expand its network.

Industry committee  So how does rural Canada keep pace? We believe there are three key ingredients to success. The first is private investment. The second is targeted public investment. The third is spectrum. The first issue, we would submit, is for governments to create the right conditions to allow companies to continue to aggressively invest in their networks.