The government tabled its 2016 budget on Tuesday, allocating $500 million for improving high-speed broadband coverage in rural areas.
This piece of rural infrastructure has also been a priority for Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP), with the policy group passing a resolution on the topic at its AGM this past January.
KAP president Dan Mazier says while this budget funding is good, there still needs to be more regulation on inadequate Internet and cell service.
"When we talk about it as a province, we're always talking to Ottawa," he says, " and when this came up at our annual general meeting there is no one — like, so I don't have cell service or I don't have Internet service that was promised to me — so what? ... There is still no governing body. If they're not providing a service they promised that you're paying for it, where do you go with that?"
Source : Portageonline