Scrap the overbuild policy to boost broadband infrastructure

While it is laudable that the government has repeatedly committed to improving broadband access for rural and remote communities, many federal policies continue to frustrate this goal.

Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s mandate letter tasks him to implement a ‘use it or lose it’ policy, which would provide relief to Canadians suffering when companies sit on spectrum licences instead of actively building infrastructure, write Senators Dennis Patterson and Robert Black. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CSG SENATOR ROB BLACK, CSG SENATOR DENNIS PATTERSON

April 6, 2022

Many will read this op-ed using a wireless device. Most Canadians don’t realize how much of a luxury that is. While it is laudable that the government has repeatedly committed to improving broadband access for rural and remote communities, many federal policies continue to frustrate this goal. Fo...

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