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<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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<td>[First Mile] FMCC Files Submission to House of Commons
Study on Rural Broadband</td>
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<td>Sun, 15 Oct 2017 11:45:45 -0600</td>
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<td>Rob McMahon <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rdmcmaho@UALBERTA.CA"><rdmcmaho@UALBERTA.CA></a></td>
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<td>Rob McMahon <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rdmcmaho@UALBERTA.CA"><rdmcmaho@UALBERTA.CA></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:FIRSTMILE@LISTSERV.UNB.CA">FIRSTMILE@LISTSERV.UNB.CA</a></td>
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style="" 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="box-sizing:border-box;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="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px
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moz-do-not-send="true">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="box-sizing:border-box;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="box-sizing:border-box;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>
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style="box-sizing:border-box;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="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px
0px;color:rgb(233,102,86);text-decoration-line:none;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"
moz-do-not-send="true"><strong
style="box-sizing:border-box;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>
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<p style="box-sizing:border-box;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="box-sizing:border-box;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="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px
0px;color:rgb(233,102,86);text-decoration-line:none;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"
moz-do-not-send="true"><font size="2" face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">The press release announcing the
consultation notes:</font></a></p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;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="box-sizing:border-box;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="box-sizing:border-box;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="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px
24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify;color:rgb(64,64,64)"><em
style="box-sizing:border-box;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="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px
24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify;color:rgb(64,64,64)"><em
style="box-sizing:border-box;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="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px
24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify;color:rgb(64,64,64)"><em
style="box-sizing:border-box;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>
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style="" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a
href="https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/INDU/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=9604427"
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moz-do-not-send="true"><strong
style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Visit
the Standing Committee’s website to </strong></a><strong
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href="https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/INDU/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=9604427"
style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px
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moz-do-not-send="true">SUBMIT your own intervention
and READ those made by other parties</a></strong></font></li>
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