In 2021, the auditor general’s report in Canada said that only 40 percent of people in Manitoba have access to high-speed internet. Now, the federal government is taking $38 million from the $3 billion Universal Broadband Fund to help connect over 3,600 homes in 14 remote communities in the province.
Most of these remote communities are First Nations, which should help the more isolated of them connect to the internet. This will also help with telehealth and other online forms of healthcare.
Using the Connect to Innovate funding, the federal government is trying to connect all Canadians to the internet by 2030, and these steps towards linking up remote communities will be crucial to hitting that goal.
Source: CBC
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