Declaring victory on our broadband objective

It is time to engage partnerships between service providers, government social service agencies, and training facilities to drive adoption, ensuring no Canadian household is left offline.
Despite billions of dollars of investment, a stubborn last one to two per cent of households remain unserved, particularly in the North and in the most sparsely populated rural pockets, writes Mark Goldberg.Photograph courtesy of Kindel Media, Pexels.com
Opinion
BY MARK GOLDBERG
June 8, 2026

Canada’s national broadband objective is defined as having high-speed (50 Mbps down/10 Mbps up) connectivity available to all Canadians by the year 2030. I wonder if it may be time for us to declare victory and move on to setting a new objective: increasing adoption among ...

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