Avalon, whether you are working from home, learning online, or accessing health services, being connected is an essential part of life regardless of where you live.

As we know, access to quality, high-speed internet was essential prior to the pandemic, and COVID-19 has further highlighted the importance of connectivity, and accelerated the need to connect all Canadians.

Yesterday, the Prime Minister announced an investment of $1.75 billion to help connect Canadians to high-speed internet across the country, grow businesses, and create jobs.

This program will help us to connect 98% of households by 2026, with the goal of connecting all Canadians by 2030.

As part of this announcement, we're also committing $600 million to secure low-earth-orbit satellite capacity through Telesat, in order to provide high-speed internet to the most rural and remote parts of Canada.

Since 2015, our government has approved programs and projects that will connect 1.7 million Canadian households to better, faster internet.

For more information: https://pm.gc.ca/.../connecting-all-canadians-high-speed...