Industry committee  It has to be guided in the right direction. If furthering competition is the main objective, but there is no access to the service, we have accomplished nothing. Zero is still zero. We can't support competition until there are at least two service providers. Even if there were o

Industry committee  There are steps before we reach the 100% target; we are aiming for 90% by 2022, and 95% by 2026. The last segment of 5% by 2030 will probably be the most difficult to attain. Is that correct?

Industry committee  Fine. Thank you for working so hard on this file, Mr. Amos. I will give the minute I have left to Mr. Longfield.

Industry committee  Whatever happened with the motion last year—I looked at the record and I wasn't there for it—we are under a directive of the House. I think it's incumbent upon us to act seriously on it. To Michael's comments before, I have a large rural riding that's quite a bit bigger than Wel

Industry committee  Thank you, Ms. Jordan, for being here for this. This is a very important issue we're discussing. I know we've talked about the Internet an awful lot, but I think cellphones are really what we're trying to get to here. I'll continue with Brian's point for a bit. How do we get sma

Industry committee  I appreciate that.

Industry committee  By smaller blocks, do you mean narrower band or a narrow geographic area?

Industry committee  That's helpful. We have an Internet service co-operative in my riding and it would be wonderful if they could bid on cellphones to provide it to that county, as opposed to having to do the province or the country. That's what I'd like to get to. You mentioned in your opening com

Industry committee  I appreciate that. One of the things about your appointment as minister is that you are under infrastructure. I think it's really important to put Internet and cellphone service as infrastructure instead of as service and I wanted to thank you for that. The first Internet as a

Industry committee  Thank you, and good luck.

Industry committee  I sure hope that industry presents a report on copyright soon. I think it would be quite helpful. Minister, could you explain to us what the Canada research chairs do and what they've accomplished so far?

Industry committee  How many research chairs are there?

Industry committee  It's more than I realized. I sense great pride in the program. I do have another question related to the research. How does one motivate particular research to happen? One of the big issues in my rural riding, which has no research institutions, is that there are over 10,000 lak

Industry committee  Mr. Massé wanted to ask a quick question as well, if I could pass some time to him.

Industry committee  I would just like to say that I agree in principle about what you want to do. That is the half of M-208 that SECU was supposed to deal with, and SECU is starting to deal with it. I propose that we discuss it at the end of the meeting so that we don't lose our time with our witne