Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2021-03-08 19:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Gudie Hutchings (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development, Lib.)",
        "fr": "Mme Gudie Hutchings (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire de la ministre des Femmes et de l\u2019\u00c9galit\u00e9 des genres et du D\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique rural, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6545035\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, on behalf of all of us in the House, I would like to take this minute on International Women's Day to thank you for your leadership and support and wish you and all my female colleagues all the best. I am sure I can speak for all of us in the House on that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6545036\" data-originallang=\"en\">I am delighted to stand and chat about our government's progress in improving connectivity for all Canadians and for the member for <a data-HoCid=\"252796\" href=\"/politicians/michael-barrett/\" title=\"Michael Barrett\">Leeds\u2014Grenville\u2014Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes</a>. As we know and as the member opposite says, and I agree with him, high-speed Internet accessibility is essential for all Canadians, no matter where they live from coast to coast to coast.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6545037\" data-originallang=\"en\">I agree with him as well that the COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted the importance of connectivity and has accelerated the need to connect all Canadians, and I am delighted to tell him that we are on track to meet our goals of connecting 98% of homes with high-speed Internet by 2026 and 100% of Canadians by the year 2030, years earlier than previously thought.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6545038\" data-originallang=\"en\">Our connectivity strategy, and we do have a connectivity strategy, includes several coordinated initiatives, including the Connect to Innovate fund and the universal broadband fund. By the end of the Connect to Innovate program in 2023, nearly 400,000 households will have the potential to benefit from improved Internet access. Over the last month alone, we have announced over 11 communities in Quebec that have benefited from investments, and they are now connected to high-speed Internet. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6545039\" data-originallang=\"en\">The $1.75-billion universal broadband fund, the UBF, is the program that Canadians asked us for. It was enhanced and scaled up to meet the challenges that everyone is facing. It was designed with partners, with colleagues, with small businesses, with farmers and with experts to ensure that it is flexible and addresses the needs of all communities all across the country, whether it is through mobile connections, fibre connections or satellite connections. It includes tools and services to help better plan projects and, more importantly, to track the impact while addressing challenges that can happen to delay progress, because we all know Canada is a wild and wonderful country.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6545040\" data-originallang=\"en\">The UBF is going to be used to fund broadband infrastructure projects that will provide rural and remote communities with access to high-speed Internet services to connect with loved ones, use virtual health care services\u2014as the member opposite referred to, which is huge in my riding\u2014manage a farm, help with children's homework, or, frankly, just stay connected. It is going to support the required network infrastructure, whether backbone or last mile, to better meet the geographical needs and regional connectivity needs throughout the country.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6545041\" data-originallang=\"en\">I am pleased to say that we have begun announcing projects under the rapid response stream. These projects are going to connect households in November of this year. Earlier this year the <a data-HoCid=\"253384\" href=\"/politicians/maryam-monsef/\" title=\"Maryam Monsef\">Minister of Rural Economic Development</a> announced $6.7 million to connect 1,977 homes in communities in rural B.C. They were in Pemberton, Steelhead, Ryder Lake, northwest of Princeton and the north Sunshine Coast. In Starland County and Stettler County in Alberta, 7,179 underserved households are going to be connected, and northeast of Sudbury, 74 underserved households will be connected, including 68 indigenous households.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6545042\" data-originallang=\"en\">Furthermore, 190 households in the Perth\u2014Wellington region and 120 households in the Niagara region will be connected and there will be more coming soon. These are exactly the types of projects this stream was intended for and intended to fund: small local projects that will make an immediate impact. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6545043\" data-originallang=\"en\">We know there is so much more to do, but we have a strategy and a plan to make sure that every Canadian will be connected.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6545035\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, au nom de tous les d\u00e9put\u00e9s et de toutes les d\u00e9put\u00e9es, je souhaite prendre une minute en cette Journ\u00e9e internationale des femmes pour vous remercier de votre leadership et de votre soutien. Je vous souhaite, ainsi qu'\u00e0 l'ensemble de mes coll\u00e8gues f\u00e9minines, beaucoup de succ\u00e8s. Je suis certaine que l'ensemble des d\u00e9put\u00e9s ont les m\u00eames v\u0153ux \u00e0 vous faire. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6545036\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je suis ravie de souligner les progr\u00e8s r\u00e9alis\u00e9s par le gouvernement afin d'am\u00e9liorer la connectivit\u00e9 pour tous les Canadiens, ce que souhaite \u00e9galement le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"252796\" href=\"/politicians/michael-barrett/\" title=\"Michael Barrett\">Leeds\u2014Grenville\u2014Thousand Islands et Rideau Lakes</a>. Comme nous le savons et comme l'a mentionn\u00e9 le d\u00e9put\u00e9 d'en face, et je suis d'accord avec lui, l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 des services Internet haute vitesse est essentiel pour les Canadiens d'un oc\u00e9an \u00e0 l'autre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6545037\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je suis \u00e9galement d'accord avec lui pour dire que la pand\u00e9mie a mis encore davantage en \u00e9vidence l'importance de connecter l'ensemble des Canadiens. Je suis ravie de lui annoncer que nous sommes en bonne voie d'atteindre nos objectifs, c'est-\u00e0-dire de connecter 95 % des m\u00e9nages \u00e0 un service Internet haute vitesse d'ici 2026, et 100 % des m\u00e9nages d'ici 2030, des ann\u00e9es plus t\u00f4t que ce que l'on croyait possible. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6545038\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Notre strat\u00e9gie pour la connectivit\u00e9 \u2014 nous en avons bel et bien une \u2014 comprend plusieurs initiatives coordonn\u00e9es, notamment le fonds Brancher pour innover et le Fonds pour la large bande universelle. En 2023, \u00e0 la fin du programme Brancher pour innover, pr\u00e8s de 400 000 foyers pourraient b\u00e9n\u00e9ficier d'un meilleur acc\u00e8s Internet. Au cours du mois dernier seulement, nous avons annonc\u00e9 que plus de 11 collectivit\u00e9s au Qu\u00e9bec ont re\u00e7u du financement et sont maintenant branch\u00e9es \u00e0 Internet haute vitesse.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6545039\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le Fonds pour la large bande universelle de 1,75 milliard de dollars est le programme que les Canadiens nous ont demand\u00e9. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 am\u00e9lior\u00e9 et bonifi\u00e9 pour pouvoir relever les d\u00e9fis que tout le monde doit affronter. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 con\u00e7u avec des partenaires, des coll\u00e8gues, des petites entreprises, des agriculteurs et des experts afin qu'il soit souple et qu'il r\u00e9ponde aux besoins de toutes les collectivit\u00e9s du pays, que ce soit \u00e0 l'aide de connexions mobiles, de connexions \u00e0 fibres optiques ou de connexions par satellite. Le programme comprend des outils et des services pour mieux planifier les projets et, plus important encore, pour suivre leurs r\u00e9percussions tout en r\u00e9glant les probl\u00e8mes qui peuvent survenir et retarder les progr\u00e8s parce que tout le monde sait que le Canada est un merveilleux pays sauvage.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6545040\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le Fonds pour la large bande universelle servira \u00e0 financer des projets d'infrastructure \u00e0 large bande qui permettront \u00e0 des communaut\u00e9s rurales et \u00e9loign\u00e9es d'acc\u00e9der \u00e0 des services Internet haute vitesse pour communiquer avec leurs \u00eatres chers, recourir aux services de t\u00e9l\u00e9m\u00e9decine dont a parl\u00e9 le d\u00e9put\u00e9 d'en face, des services qui sont \u00e9norm\u00e9ment utilis\u00e9s dans ma circonscription, de m\u00eame que pour g\u00e9rer une exploitation agricole, aider les enfants \u00e0 faire leurs devoirs ou, franchement, simplement rester branch\u00e9s. Ce fonds soutiendra l'infrastructure r\u00e9seau n\u00e9cessaire, tant l'infrastructure de base que celle du dernier kilom\u00e8tre, afin de mieux r\u00e9pondre aux besoins g\u00e9ographiques et aux besoins de connectivit\u00e9 r\u00e9gionaux dans l'ensemble du pays.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6545041\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je suis ravie de dire que nous avons commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 annoncer des projets retenus dans le cadre du volet de r\u00e9ponse rapide. Ces projets donneront \u00e0 des m\u00e9nages acc\u00e8s \u00e0 Internet haute vitesse en novembre cette ann\u00e9e. Plus t\u00f4t cette ann\u00e9e, la <a data-HoCid=\"253384\" href=\"/politicians/maryam-monsef/\" title=\"Maryam Monsef\">ministre du D\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique rural</a> a annonc\u00e9 l'octroi de 6,7 millions de dollars pour brancher 1 977 m\u00e9nages dans des collectivit\u00e9s rurales de la Colombie-Britannique, plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment dans les r\u00e9gions de Pemberton, de Steelhead, de Ryder Lake, du nord-ouest de Princeton et du nord de Sunshine Coast. Dans les comt\u00e9s de Starland et de Stettler, en Alberta, 7 179 m\u00e9nages moins bien desservis auront acc\u00e8s \u00e0 Internet haute vitesse. Au nord-est de Sudbury, 74 m\u00e9nages mal desservis, dont 68 m\u00e9nages autochtones, seront branch\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6545042\" data-originallang=\"en\">Par ailleurs, 190 m\u00e9nages de la r\u00e9gion de Perth\u2014Wellington et 120 m\u00e9nages de la r\u00e9gion de Niagara seront connect\u00e9s, et d'autres le seront bient\u00f4t. Voil\u00e0 pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le genre de projets que ce programme visait \u00e0 financer, de petits projets locaux qui auront des effets imm\u00e9diats.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6545043\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous savons qu'il reste encore beaucoup \u00e0 faire, mais nous avons une strat\u00e9gie et un plan pour connecter tous les Canadiens.</p>"
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        "en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
        "fr": "Motion d'ajournement"
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    "h2": {
        "en": "Telecommunications",
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