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    <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Good news for remote
        Inuit communities</font></p>
    <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Marita</font><br>
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            <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">Subject:
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            <td>KRG building fibre network to serve remote communities -
              YES!!!</td>
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            <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">Date: </th>
            <td>Wed, 22 Aug 2018 22:04:10 -0300</td>
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            <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">From: </th>
            <td>Brian Beaton <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:brian.beaton@KNET.CA"><brian.beaton@KNET.CA></a></td>
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            <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">Reply-To:
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            <td>Brian Beaton <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:brian.beaton@KNET.CA"><brian.beaton@KNET.CA></a></td>
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            <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>
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      <div>FYI .. WOW .. KRG accessing $125M to build subsea connections
        to remote Inuit communities and Fibre-to-the-home connections
        and .. [smiles] .. So very exciting!! </div>
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      <div>CONGRATULATIONS to everyone who worked on this one!! Looks
        like Dan and the Tamaani team is going to be busy for some time
        to come [smiles] ..</div>
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      <div><a
href="http://firstmile.ca/krg-receives-millions-to-construct-ftth-and-sub-sea-fibre-network-to-serve-nunavik-remote-communities/"
          moz-do-not-send="true">http://firstmile.ca/krg-receives-millions-to-construct-ftth-and-sub-sea-fibre-network-to-serve-nunavik-remote-communities/</a></div>
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      <div>ISED News release ..</div>
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          rgb(64, 64, 64); margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 26px;
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          background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Remote Inuit
          communities will benefit from first-time access to modern
          high-speed Internet</h2>
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          vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);
          font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
          background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;
            border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;
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            text-align: justify;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nunavik
              residents to get new or faster Internet access thanks to
              investments from governments of Canada and Quebec</b></p>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;
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            text-align: justify;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">August
              22, 2018</b> – Kuujjuaq, Quebec</p>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;
            border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;
            outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
            text-align: justify;">Internet access is more than just a
            convenience: citizens, communities, businesses and
            institutions need it to find information, offer services and
            create opportunities. That’s why the Government of Canada is
            helping all of Nunavik’s 14 Inuit communities and 28
            institutions get online with new or improved high-speed
            Internet access.</p>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;
            border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;
            outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
            text-align: justify;">Stéphane Lauzon, Parliamentary
            Secretary for Sport and Persons with Disabilities, on behalf
            of the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation,
            Science and Economic Development, announced a joint
            federal-provincial investment of $125.2 million in
            high-speed Internet today at the Kativik Regional Government
            office in Kuujjuaq. The Government of Canada, through the
            Connect to Innovate program, and the Government of Quebec,
            through the Ministry of economy, science and innovation,
            which mandated the Société du Plan Nord to carry out this
            project, will each invest $62.6 million in the project. The
            Kativik Regional Government will contribute $500,000.</p>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;
            border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;
            outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
            text-align: justify;">The government funding will be
            allocated over three years to the Kativik Regional
            Government, the territorial government for Nunavik, to build
            subsea fibre optic backbone infrastructure along the eastern
            coast of Hudson Bay, reaching as far north as Puvirnituq,
            which would be one of the most northerly fibre optic
            connections in all of Canada. The fibre optic infrastructure
            will initially connect four Nunavik communities, enabling
            residents to have access to high-speed Internet service
            packages on par with those available to Canadians in major
            cities by 2020. The funding will also go toward building a
            backbone network to serve Kuujjuaq, the territory’s capital,
            while also deploying state-of-the-art fibre-to-the-home
            infrastructure in 10 communities.</p>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;
            border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;
            outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
            text-align: justify;">This investment will help residents of
            these communities connect with family and friends, do
            business online, participate in distance education and take
            advantage of the opportunities afforded by the digital age.</p>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;
            border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;
            outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;
            text-align: justify;">To date, the Government of Canada has
            invested over $160 million to bring high-speed Internet to
            Quebec’s rural and remote communities under <a
href="https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-development/programs/computer-internet-access/connect-to-innovate.html"
              style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(233, 102, 86);
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              initial;" moz-do-not-send="true">Connect to Innovate</a>.</p>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;
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            text-align: justify;">The Government of Canada’s
            $500-million Connect to Innovate program is investing in
            building the digital backbone of high-speed Internet
            networks. Backbone networks are the digital highways that
            move data in and out of communities. These highways carry
            large amounts of data that are essential for schools,
            hospitals, libraries and businesses to function in a digital
            world.</p>
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          text-align: justify; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);
          font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;
          background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </p>
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          <blockquote data-emptytext="Blockquote" style="box-sizing:
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            <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;
              border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;
              font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;
              vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify;">“Access to
              high-speed Internet is not a luxury; it’s essential.
              High-speed Internet service is a basic tool that all
              Canadians should have access to, regardless of where they
              live. Our communities need this service to do business,
              upgrade their education and build stronger communities.
              Thanks to our Connect to Innovate program, more people
              will be able to participate fully in the digital economy
              and have access to middle-class jobs.”</p>
            <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px;
              font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style:
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              baseline; text-align: justify;">– The Honourable Navdeep
              Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic
              Development</p>
          </blockquote>
          <blockquote data-emptytext="Blockquote" style="box-sizing:
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            <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;
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              font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;
              vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify;">“For
              northern Quebec communities, digital investment through
              the Connect to Innovate program enhances opportunities for
              residents of all ages. This important investment will
              support students and youth in learning and residents in
              day-to-day life with connected devices. It will also
              support businesses and institutions by giving them the
              technological tools they need to succeed in the digital
              economy. It’s all part of our government’s plan to help
              create opportunity in all communities, including remote
              communities in the North.</p>
            <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px;
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              baseline; text-align: justify;">– Stéphane Lauzon,
              Parliamentary Secretary for Sport and Person with
              Disabilities</p>
          </blockquote>
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            <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;
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              vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify;">“We are
              proud to support this important project by the Kativik
              Regional Government that will enable more households and
              businesses to connect, thereby contributing to Nunavik’s
              economic growth and the vitality of the Nord‑du‑Québec
              region. Just like electricity was a driving force in the
              20th century, access to broadband Internet is today a
              powerful driver of digital and socio-economic development.
              That is why our government, in the Quebec Digital
              Strategy, set itself this target: 100 percent of Quebec
              residents having access to broadband networks within the
              next five years.”</p>
            <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px;
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              baseline; text-align: justify;">– Dominique Anglade,
              Deputy Premier of Quebec, Minister of Economy, Science and
              Innovation, and Minister responsible for the Digital
              Strategy</p>
          </blockquote>
          <blockquote data-emptytext="Blockquote" style="box-sizing:
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            <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;
              border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;
              font-style: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;
              vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify;">“Thanks to
              financial support for the Société du Plan Nord, our
              government is able to support this digital infrastructure
              project in Nunavik, which will contribute to integrated
              and coherent development in the region covered by the Plan
              Nord. We reaffirm our commitment to seizing the
              opportunities presented by digital transformation of the
              economy—not only by supporting this project but also by
              focusing, through the Digital Strategy, on
              high-performing, modern infrastructure throughout Quebec.”</p>
            <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px;
              font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style:
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              baseline; text-align: justify;">– Jean Boucher, Member of
              the National Assembly for Ungava and Parliamentary
              Assistant to the Minister of Forests, Wildlife and Parks</p>
          </blockquote>
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            <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px;
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              vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify;">“The
              Tamaani Internet phase 5 project, associated with the
              Connect to Innovate program, will lead to faster and
              greater Internet services for residential, business and
              government users, allowing for increased education, skills
              development and job opportunities. It will also improve
              videoconferencing, bringing us closer together. The
              Government of Canada, through the Connect to Innovate
              program, and the Government of Quebec, through the Société
              du Plan Nord, are helping us to reduce the gap between the
              north and the south in terms of Internet services and to
              further develop Nunavik’s economy and human capital.”</p>
            <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border: 0px;
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              baseline; text-align: justify;">– Jennifer Munick,
              Chairperson, Kativik Regional Government</p>
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            facts</h2>
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              padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Government of
              Canada and the Government of Quebec will each provide
              funding of $62.6 million for the project, and the Kativik
              Regional Government is contributing $500,000.</li>
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              Innovate is one of several Government of Canada measures
              to improve telecommunications services for Canadians.
              Others are a $100-million investment to improve coverage
              and connectivity in rural areas with low-earth-orbit
              satellites; <a
                href="http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/111.nsf/eng/home"
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                initial;" moz-do-not-send="true">Connecting Families</a>,
              an initiative that will provide many low-income Canadians
              with low-cost Internet and up to 50,000 computers to
              eligible households through the <a
                href="https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cfs-ope.nsf/eng/home"
                style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(233, 102, 86);
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                initial;" moz-do-not-send="true">Computer for Schools</a> program;
              a five-year plan for wireless spectrum release to promote
              competition and help drive down prices for Canadians and
              to deliver better quality and coverage; and consultations
              to prepare Canada for 5G, the next generation of
              high-quality wireless systems that will enable e-health,
              connected cars and smart cities.</li>
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              Innovate is part of the Government of Canada’s <a
                href="http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/062.nsf/eng/home"
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                initial;" moz-do-not-send="true">Innovation and Skills
                Plan</a>, a multi-year strategy to create well-paying
              jobs for the middle class.</li>
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              padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Quebec
              Digital Strategy is a social project that aims to bring
              together the government’s various actions in accelerating
              the development of a true digital culture in all regions.</li>
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              padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To provide needed
              impetus for the Quebec Digital Strategy, the government
              took additional actions in November 2017 when it updated
              the March 2017 Quebec Economic Plan. These include the
              announcement of $300 million in support over six years to
              carry out initiatives aimed at ensuring access to
              high-speed networks in every region of Quebec.</li>
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