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GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
Canada’s minister for rural economic development urges small local Internet service providers to take advantage of a federal program to fast track their projects. Maryam Monsef, minister for women and gender equality and rural economic de- velopment , and Glengarry-Prescott-Russell MP Francis Drouin met with local media UISPVHIBWJSUVBMUFMFDPOGFSFODF/PWFNCFS to explain how the federal government’s ex- QBOEFE6OJWFSTBM#SPBECBOE'VOE 6#' XJMM help regional Internet and cellular service improvement projects across Canada and to encourage local service providers to submit their project proposals the Rapid Response 4USFBNBQQMJDBUJPOQSPDFTT 334 CFGPSF the January 5 , 2021 , deadline. #PUIUIFNJOJTUFSBOE.1%SPVJOOPUFE that this pandemic crisis has highlighted the importance of broadband access for residents and businesses. “The government of Canada is putting its full weight behind this very important infrastructure,” said Min- ister Monsef. Added Drouin: “I have heard DPVOUMFTTSFTJEFOUT JO(MFOHBSSZ1SFTDPUU 3VTTFMM UFMMNFBCPVU UIF JNQPSUBODFPG having good access to broadband . ” The federal government increased its PSJHJOBMCJMMJPOGVOEJOHQMBOGPSUIF6#'UP $1.75 billion to guarantee adequate funding available to support large-scale regional broadband improvement proposals like the &BTUFSO0OUBSJP3FHJPOBM/FUXPSLT &03/ Gig project for ultra-fast broadband service. Monsef noted that the CRTC’s own reports indicate that only 50 per cent of homes and businesses in the GPR have access to high-speed Internet that provides 50 Megabyte upload speed and 10Mgb download speed. That is now the global average for efficient and effect broadband service and Monsef that the goal for the 6#'QSPHSBN JT UPNBLFTVSF UIBUBMMPG Canada’s urban and rural areas have at
least 50/10 broadband access. The government also created the RRS DPNQPOFOUPG UIF6#'QSPHSBN UPIFMQ TNBMM*OUFSOFU4FSWJDF1SPWJEFST *41 XIP have “shovel-ready” projects for improving their existing local broadband services and expanding those services to cover a wider BSFB#PUI.POTFGBOE%SPVJOOPUFEUIBU RRS will prove a great help in meeting the federal goal for improved rural Internet service. #PUI UIFNJOJTUFSBOE.1OPUFE UIBU the federal government is also reviewing the issue of broadband service pricing to ensure that high-speed Internet service is affordable for everyone. Monsef noted that one condition of the RRS is that ISPs must provide details of their service price rates with funding applications for their projects. i1SPKFDUT UIBUPGGFS MPXFS VTFS rates will be received more favourably,” she said. Maryam Monsef, ministre des Femmes, de l’Égalité des genres et du Développement économique rural, exhorte tous les fournisseurs régionaux de services Internet à tirer parti d’un programme fédéral de soutien financier nouvellement renforcé pour les projets d’amélioration du haut débit. —photo fournie
AUGMENTATION D’UN POUR CENT DES TAXES POUR LE BUDGET 2021 DES CUPR
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GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
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The United Counties of Prescott- Russell 2021 budget is now approved with a one-per-cent tax increase.
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