Industry committee  The existing criteria are that municipalities can be applicants, but they have to be partnered, as part of a consortium, with an organization that can act as a telecommunications service provider so that we can in turn regulate the service that they're going to put in place.

Industry committee  I'd have to get back to you on that, but certainly regional governments have been recipients of our fund. I could get back to you with exactly how many specific municipalities there have been.

Industry committee  That's been a very big part of our fund to date. Part of the reason we have to be so careful in the funding that we've awarded to date is that we have to ensure that we're not overstepping and overlapping, so we work closely with both ISED and our territorial and provincial count

Industry committee  I think you captured that well, Mr. Hutton. The lack of access to general infrastructure, like roads, is a big barrier to building up infrastructure. For example, in December, we were successful in awarding funding to Nunavut to provide high-speed Internet for the first time to a