<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="script-src 'self'; img-src * cid: data:;"></head><body style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: initial; line-height: initial;"><div id="response_container_BBPPID" style="outline:none;font-size:initial;font-family:"Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif"" dir="auto" contenteditable="false"> <div name="BB10" dir="auto" style="width: 100%; padding: initial; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Thanks Marita you are right good one.</div>                                                                                                                                      <div name="BB10" dir="auto" style="width: 100%; padding: initial; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <br style="display:initial"></div>                            <div id="blackberry_signature_BBPPID" name="BB10" dir="auto">     <div name="BB10" dir="auto" style="padding: initial; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sent from my BlackBerry - the most secure mobile device</div> </div></div><div id="_original_msg_header_BBPPID" dir="auto">                                                                                                                                             <table width="100%" style="background-color: white; border-spacing: 0px; display: table; outline: none;" contenteditable="false"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="padding: initial; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">                           <div style="border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-top: 1pt solid rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, "BB Alpha Sans", "Slate Pro"; font-size: 10pt;">  <div id="from"><b>From:</b> mmoll@ca.inter.net</div><div id="sent"><b>Sent:</b> October 15, 2017 4:03 PM</div><div id="to"><b>To:</b> advisors@tc.ca</div><div id="subject"><b>Subject:</b> [Advisors] Fwd: [First Mile] FMCC Files Submission to House of Commons Study on Rural Broadband</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-top: 1pt solid rgb(186, 188, 209); display: block; padding: initial; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div> <br> </div><!--start of _originalContent --><div name="BB10" dir="auto" style="background-image: initial; line-height: initial; outline: none;" contenteditable="false"><div><p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Great submission from
        FMCC. Love their highlighting community engagement and the fact
        that communities should be able to produce, own and operate
        their networks, ensuring that the network will meet the needs of
        the community. That might be a pretty new concept for a lot of
        people in that room.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Marita</font><br>
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            </th><td>[First Mile] FMCC Files Submission to House of Commons
              Study on Rural Broadband</td></tr><tr><th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">Date: </th><td>Sun, 15 Oct 2017 11:45:45 -0600</td></tr><tr><th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">From: </th><td>Rob McMahon <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rdmcmaho@UALBERTA.CA"><rdmcmaho@UALBERTA.CA></a></td></tr><tr><th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">Reply-To:
            </th><td>Rob McMahon <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rdmcmaho@UALBERTA.CA"><rdmcmaho@UALBERTA.CA></a></td></tr><tr><th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">To: </th><td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:FIRSTMILE@LISTSERV.UNB.CA">FIRSTMILE@LISTSERV.UNB.CA</a></td></tr></tbody></table>
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        <h1 class="entry-title" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;line-height:22px;color:rgb( 64 , 64 , 64 );border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">FMCC
            Files Submission to House of Commons Study on Rural
            Broadband</font></h1>
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          <p style="margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify;color:rgb( 64 , 64 , 64 )"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In early October, <a href="https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/INDU/Brief/BR9137395/br-external/FirstMileConnectivityConsortium-e.pdf" style="background:0px 0px;color:rgb( 233 , 102 , 86 );border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">FMCC filed a submission to a
                parliamentary study on rural broadband. I</a>n our
              submission, we welcomed the Standing Committee’s focus on
              improving connectivity through an approach that
              demonstrates its impact on local rural economies,
              including community engagement. We stressed the
              opportunities that this project can have on local
              communities: that is, provide benefit to people living and
              working in rural, remote, Northern and Indigenous
              communities across the country.</font></p>
          <p style="margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify;color:rgb( 64 , 64 , 64 )"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We also recognized and
              supported the Standing Committee’s recognition of
              community engagement in this process. Opportunities for
              residents of rural, remote, Northern and Indigenous
              communities to substantively contribute to the design and
              use of policies and regulations impacting broadband
              infrastructure and services. Importantly, this includes a
              recognition of a range of development approaches.</font></p>
          <p style="margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify;color:rgb( 64 , 64 , 64 )"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Residents of rural
              communities should not be restricted to act only as
              consumers of broadband – they can also act as producers,
              owners, and operators. In this submission, we highlight
              the importance of ensuring that rural populations have
              opportunities to utilize broadband not just as an enabler
              for economic development in other industries and services,
              but also as a locally-owned and managed resource in and of
              itself.</font></p>
          <ul style="margin:0px 0px 1.5em 3em;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb( 64 , 64 , 64 )"><li style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/INDU/Brief/BR9137395/br-external/FirstMileConnectivityConsortium-e.pdf" style="background:0px 0px;color:rgb( 233 , 102 , 86 );border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">DOWNLOAD
                    the FMCC submission here</font></strong></a></li></ul>
          <p style="margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify;color:rgb( 64 , 64 , 64 )"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The House of Commons
              Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology is
              currently undertaking a study on Broadband Connectivity in
              Rural Canada, and invites individuals and organizations to
              submit comments.</font></p>
          <p style="margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify;color:rgb( 64 , 64 , 64 )"><a href="https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/INDU/news-release/9029310" style="background:0px 0px;color:rgb( 233 , 102 , 86 );border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2" face="arial,
                helvetica, sans-serif">The press release announcing the
                consultation notes:</font></a></p>
          <p style="margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify;color:rgb( 64 , 64 , 64 )"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><em style="border:0px;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The
                motion for this study is as follows: “</em><em style="border:0px;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">That
                the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and
                Technology undertake a study on broadband connectivity,
                with a primary focus on developing a plan to improve
                rural connectivity, and demonstrating its impact on
                local rural economies, including community engagement;
                that the committee make recommendations that identify
                and address:</em></font></p>
          <p style="margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify;color:rgb( 64 , 64 , 64 )"><em style="border:0px;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">a) what constitutes
                acceptable high-speed service,</font></em></p>
          <p style="margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify;color:rgb( 64 , 64 , 64 )"><em style="border:0px;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">b) the financial
                challenges of implementing high-speed services,</font></em></p>
          <p style="margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify;color:rgb( 64 , 64 , 64 )"><em style="border:0px;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">c) the regulatory
                changes to encourage the implementation of high-speed
                service.”</font></em></p>
          <ul style="margin:0px 0px 1.5em 3em;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb( 64 , 64 , 64 )"><li style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/INDU/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=9604427" style="background:0px 0px;color:rgb( 233 , 102 , 86 );border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Visit
                    the Standing Committee’s website to </strong></a><strong style="background:0px 0px;color:rgb( 233 , 102 , 86 );border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/INDU/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=9604427" style="background:0px 0px;color:rgb( 233 , 102 , 86 );border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">SUBMIT your own intervention
                    and READ those made by other parties</a></strong></font></li></ul>
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