Supporting broadband and internet expansion

By MPP Toby Barrett

For years, I have been hearing from people in the riding – and I hear these complaints in my own home as well – about poor internet service.

As we have seen in the past, it’s important the expansion of broadband must be affordable. The problem always remains that it can cost several thousand dollars to lay a mile of fibre in rural areas where the cost cannot be offset by communities of denser population.