Canada Has 'No Plan' To Bring Broadband To Rural and Remote Communities, Watchdog Says

Canada has 'no plan' to wire up remote communities that lack high-speed broadband connections, Canada's auditor general said in a scathing report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. From a report: The report comes just two years after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, an Indigenous community at the border of Manitoba and Ontario, and vowed that his government would work to end the digital divide that leaves rural and remote communities without high-speed internet.

'This report says what we already knew, which is that there is no strategy to bring the rest of Canada online,' Laura Tribe, executive director of advocacy group Openmedia, said in a phone call. 'What we keep hearing from the government is increasing numbers -- 80 percent, 90 percent -- but until we're at 100 percent, the problem isn't solved.'

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